entrails

Examples

• All

• And he held out his hand and his wrist was bound to the wrist of the child's father with the entrails of the goat.

  Harvard University

• Not surprising from the guy who wrote poetry about mankind strangling its kings with the entrails of a priest.

• Definitely dicier, you know, if you wanna gamble, but with your entrails and stuff like that, go over to China.

  Theo Von

• Earth trembled from her entrails as again in pangs, and nature gave a second groan.

• They cover the walls and ceilings of a room with chunks of rotten flesh and piles of bleeding entrails and brains from local slaughterhouses.

• After the surgery, the doctor explained that the patient's entrails were significantly damaged.

• In ancient rituals, priests would often examine the entrails of sacrificed animals to predict the future.

Synonyms

V

viscera

vsentrails

• Specialized

7 8.4

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

is an older, more common term used in plain speech

I

insides

vsentrails

1 3.7

The organs inside the body, especially in the belly

is a more anatomical and specific word for those organs

I

innards

vsentrails

• Informal

6.6

The parts inside a person, animal, or machine

is limited to biological internal organs rather than mechanical components

Antonyms

S

skin

∞ 1.0

The outer layer covering the body of a person or animal

E

exterior

124 3.1

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

Surface Forms

Etymology