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💔 To weaken greatly 🩺 To remove organs 🦴 Organs removed
to eviscerate

to eviscerate

6 9.5
To remove the inside parts of a body, often in animals or surgery
  • verb
  • /ɪˈvɪsəˌreɪt/
  • NSFW
translation icon : eviscerar
  • He often finds the bodies of small animals eviscerated by predators out on the trapline.

Oh man, dude, I didn't know that that's what happened to human flesh or human body when it's eviscerated.

Examples

  • After the bird flew off, he hiked to the site of the kill and found an eviscerated piglet.

    Academic text (2010)

  • Rinse the now eviscerated and skinned snake in cool water to remove any excess blood or other undesirable substances.

    Blog text (26)

  • Soon a new fire was burning, and the cook was eviscerating birds.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • Two of the white shark specimens were eviscerated at sea, so their stomachs could not be examined.

    Academic text (1994)

  • The 391 cm female shark was eviscerated at sea, and therefore no gonads were available to determine the state of maturity.

    Academic text (1994)

  • With few exceptions, fish had to be eviscerated as soon as they were caught; fillets and steaks had to be individually inspected by hand using specified illumination equipment.

    Academic text (1990)

  • The chef taught us how to eviscerate a fish before cooking it.

  • Farmers must eviscerate the animals quickly to ensure the quality of the meat.

  • As part of the dissection, the students learned to eviscerate the frog in biology class.

Synonyms

to gut
vsto eviscerate
  • NSFW
122 6.7

To remove the inner parts of an animal or a building

is specific to bodies and medical or scientific contexts rather than buildings
to dissect
vsto eviscerate
28 6.2

To cut open a dead animal or plant to study its inside parts

focuses on removing internal contents rather than only opening to examine
to disembowel
vsto eviscerate
  • Offensive
19 9.9

To remove the insides from a person or animal

is broader and removes any internal organs for surgery or scientific study
to draw
vsto eviscerate
  • NSFW
4 8.9

Remove the inside organs of an animal before cooking

is used for removal across surgery or study rather than food preparation
to exenterate
vsto eviscerate
  • Specialized
9.9

To remove the contents of an organ by surgery

is removal of whole internal organs from a body for study or surgery

How Complete

to eviscerate
  • NSFW
6 9.5
to gut
  • NSFW
122 6.7
cut
1.0
to pierce
110 3.5

Surface Forms

eviscerate infinitive
eviscerated past
eviscerated past participle
eviscerating present participle
eviscerates third person singular

Morphology

eviscerate = viscerate (semi-transparent) = e + viscer + ate

The prefix 'e-' suggests removal, but the connection to 'viscera' may not be immediately clear to learners.

Etymology

Eviscerate comes from Latin parts e- meaning 'out' and viscera meaning 'internal organs' or 'guts'. So to eviscerate originally means to pull the organs out of a body, which is the literal modern meaning.