evisceration

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

evisceration (countable and uncountable, plural eviscerations)

1. A disemboweling; the removal of viscera.

   The evisceration of the animal was accomplished with a single blow of the knife.

2. (figurative, by extension) A vigorous verbal or physical assault.

   The critic delivered another evisceration of the latest movie.

   • 2018 September 7, Tom English, “Scotland 0-4 Belgium”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     If you were a Belgian, it was pretty and what you would have expected from your boys. If you were a Scot it was painful, an evisceration of McLeish's notion that his team were good enough to go "toe-to-toe" with the third best team in the world. Delusional.

Synonyms

• exenteration

Derived terms

• abdominal evisceration

Translations

A disemboweling

• Bulgarian: изкормване n (izkormvane)
• Dutch: van ingewanden ontdoenontweien (nl)
• French: ôter les tripes, étriper (fr)
• Galician: evisceración (gl) f
• German: Ausweiden n
• Maori: tuakanga, hāparangitanga
• Russian: потрошение (ru) (potrošenije)

A vigorous verbal assault

• Dutch: iets afbreken, neerhalen (nl)
• French: démolir verballement, éreinter quelque chose
• German: Verriss (de) m

Anagrams

• convarieties