EVISCERATE
Dictionary entry overview: What does eviscerate mean?
• EVISCERATE (adjective)
The adjective EVISCERATE has 1 sense:
1. having been disembowelled
Familiarity information: EVISCERATE used as an adjective is very rare.
• EVISCERATE (verb)
The verb EVISCERATE has 4 senses:
1. surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ
2. remove the contents of
3. remove the entrails of
4. take away a vital or essential part of
Familiarity information: EVISCERATE used as a verb is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• EVISCERATE (adjective)
Meaning:
Having been disembowelled
Similar:
injured (usually used of physical or mental injury to persons)
• EVISCERATE (verb)
Meaning:
Surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
eviscerate; resect
Hypernyms (to "eviscerate" is one way to...):
remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)
Domain category:
medicine; practice of medicine (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Remove the contents of
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
eviscerate the stomach
Hypernyms (to "eviscerate" is one way to...):
empty (make void or empty of contents)
Domain category:
medicine; practice of medicine (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Remove the entrails of
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
disembowel; eviscerate; draw
Context example:
draw a chicken
Hypernyms (to "eviscerate" is one way to...):
remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Meaning:
Take away a vital or essential part of
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
the compromise among the parties eviscerated the bill that had been proposed
Hypernyms (to "eviscerate" is one way to...):
devitalise; devitalize (sap of life or energy)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
