unbowel

English

Etymology

un- + bowel

Verb

unbowel (third-person singular simple present unbowels, present participle unbowelling or unboweling, simple past and past participle unbowelled or unboweled)

  1. (transitive) To deprive of the entrails; to disembowel.
    • 1600, John King, Lectures upon Jonas, delivered at Yorke:
      they ransacke all the corners of the shippe, vnbowel her inmost celles

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