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Definition of Embowel
1. v. t. To disembowel.
Definition of Embowel
1. Verb. (obsolete) To enclose or bury. ¹
2. Verb. To remove the bowels; disembowel. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Embowel
1. to disbowel [v -ELED, -ELING, -ELS or -ELLED, -ELLING, -ELS] - See also: disbowel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Embowel
Literary usage of Embowel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal by Australian Ex Libris Society (1885)
"... sooner retired than Falstaff, rising slowly, takes up the expression of the
prince as to seeing him embowel- led, and thus begins to moralise on it— ..."
2. The Rhyming Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Whole Language by John Walker, John Longmuir (1902)
"To de-sider-at e To want; to miss, va To iris'cer-ate To embowel; ... va To
e-sidcer-ate To embowel; to deprive of the entrails, v. a Con-sider-ate Serious ..."
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