entrail

Examples

• All

• It's a being that lives off devouring the entrails of humans.

  Fiction book (1995)

• I hope with all my entrails you will be on hand to deliver them personally.

  Fiction book (2001)

• Does you more good, as long as the entrails look clean.

  Fiction book (1993)

• Looks like you got some entrails on you there, pal.

  No Country for Old Men (2007)

• Chickens will eat about anything, including the entrails from their previous roommates.

  Blog text (24)

• So, when any of your boys are carried here with a leg missing or their entrails cupped in their hands, we will take care of them.

  The Ottoman Lieutenant (2017)

• Meanwhile, the butcher started to chop the carcass and remove the entrails.

  Fiction book (2002)

• We believe his entrails were carted off to Ratisbon, where he once served as Bishop.

  Fiction book (1991)

• Their religion included the practice of divination, performed by priests who examined animals' entrails to predict the future.

  Academic text (2010)

• The chef carefully removed the entrails from the fish before cooking it.

Synonyms

I

intestine

vsentrail

112 3.2

The long tube after the stomach that takes in nutrients and water and moves waste to the anus

refers to an internal organ in general not this specific digestive part

V

viscera

vsentrail

• Specialized

7 8.4

Organs inside the body, especially in the belly, like the stomach and intestines

focuses on one internal organ rather than the whole group

I

insides

vsentrail

1 3.7

The organs inside the body, especially in the belly

is the more formal medical term for a single internal organ

E

entrails

vsentrail

7.2

The parts inside the belly of an animal or person, especially the intestines

is the singular form used for a single internal organ

Antonyms

E

exterior

124 3.1

The outside part of something, like the walls of a house

S

surface

3.4

On the outside or top layer of something

Surface Forms

Etymology