disembowel

Contents

English

Etymology

dis- +‎ embowel

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): [dɪsɪmˈbaʊ(ə)ɫ]
• Rhymes: -aʊəl, Rhymes: -aʊl

Verb

disembowel (third-person singular simple present disembowels, present participle disemboweling or disembowelling, simple past and past participle disemboweled or disembowelled)

1. (transitive) To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate.
2. (transitive) To take or draw from the body, as the web of a spider.

Derived terms

• disembowelment

Related terms

• disemvowel

Translations

to take or let out the bowels

• Bulgarian: изкормям (bg) (izkormjam)
• Dutch: ontdarmen (nl), ontweiden (nl)
• Finnish: suolistaa (fi), poistaa sisälmykset
• French: éventrer (fr), éviscérer (fr)
• Galician: destripar, estripar
• German: (animal) ausweiden (de)
• Icelandic: aflima

• Italian: sviscerare (it), sbudellare, sventrare (it), spanciare
• Latin: ēviscerō, exenterō
• Maori: tuaki, hāparangi
• Portuguese: desentranhar, estripar (pt)
• Russian: вы́потрошить (ru) (výpotrošitʹ)
• Spanish: desentrañar (es), destripar (es)
• Swedish: ta inälvorna ur

to take or draw from the body

• Finnish: erittää (fi)

• Italian: secernere (it) (fluid, web)

References

• De Mauro - Il dizionario della lingua italiana, Tullio De Mauro. Torino: Paravia, 2000. ISBN 8839550232. Online version here