evisceration
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9.2
- noun
- /ɪˌvɪsəˈreɪʃən/
- Formal
:
despojo
- The journalist's article detailed the evisceration of environmental regulations that were crucial for protecting public lands.
Examples
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With control of a scant majority in the U.S. Senate, the House of Representatives, and the White House, there would be very little to stop Republicans from using the budget reconciliation process to pass some variation of the Paul Ryan budget, with its massive tax cuts, increased defense spending, privatization of Medicare, block granting of Medicaid, and evisceration of key social safety net programs.
Blog text (20) -
Things will happen quickly in the final stages and evisceration of our Republic, such as it is, and the Constitution will truly finally be only a piece of paper...
Blog text (19) -
Thus, on a very simple level, we see the evisceration of culture in the attack on fundamental elements of language and culture.
Academic text (2002) -
From where I stand, the evisceration of affordable housing is the single most devastating blow to true democracy in NYC.
Blog text (14) -
More so in discovering that this blog had a high volume of women who saw nothing wrong with the evisceration of their rights being proposed yet had no qualms about celebrating this man and all he stood for.
Blog text (18) -
Sometimes the evisceration of state prerogatives has been slow, and sometimes it has been fast—but it has never ceased.
Academic text (1990) -
Thus, he adds, education becomes a rather blatant, unabashed act of cultural evisceration, where colleges inculcate the standards of fealty and orthodoxy while providing reasons for hating one's past.
Academic text (2002) -
Still, I do feel sorry for all those workers who are going to lose their jobs, not because people weren't buying their company's unhealthy products, but entirely because Hostess had to endure multiple rounds of parasitic capitalistic plundering and evisceration.
Blog text (16) -
The recent legislative changes led to the evisceration of the original bill's intended protections for workers.
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Many critics argue that the evisceration of the proposed law has left it ineffective and devoid of its original purpose.
Synonyms
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7.5
Making a person or thing less respected and less valued
Making a contract or agreement not valid in law
To remove parts that people find offensive from a book or play
Antonyms
Compounds
How Weakened
- Offensive
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9.6
- Formal
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9.2
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2.9
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3.3
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3.6
Surface Forms
Morphology
evisceration = eviscerate (semi-transparent) = e + viscer + ation
The immediate base 'eviscerate' can be used figuratively, but the sense involves a metaphorical extension from physical removal to stripping an idea or policy.
Etymology
Evisceration comes from Latin parts e- 'out' and viscera 'internal organs'. In a figurative use, to eviscerate an idea or law is to take out its 'guts' or main strength, so the idea becomes weak.