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eviscerate en · VERB

Pronunciation

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• /ɪˈvɪsəˌɹeɪt/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Latin vīscera Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin ēviscerāre ▲ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Latin ēviscerātusbor. English eviscerate From Latin ēviscerātus, past participle of ēviscerāre (“to disembowel”), from e- (“out”) + viscera (“bowels”), equivalent to e- (“out”) + viscera + -ate.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To disembowel; to remove the viscera.
   • Desecrate me / Tear me limb from limb / Eviscerate me / Chew me to death 2004, “Eaten”, in Nightmares Made Flesh (Death Metal), performed by Bloodbath, Sweden:
2. (transitive) To destroy or make ineffectual or meaningless.
   • Earlier the gentleman from California (Mr. Cardoza) got up on the floor, and he was upset that somebody had said that the underlying bill would eviscerate the Endangered Species Act. 2005, Congress, Congressional Record, volume 151, part 16, page 21847:
   • Coming on stage at sunrise on the Sunday, Jefferson Airplane greet the new day explaining they’re not a “hippie band” but “manic morning music”, then eviscerate Fred Neil’s Other Side of Life. Somebody to Love is also taken at breakneck speed – this turns out to be an energy tablet before a leaden day. 2019 August 15, Bob Stanley, “'Groovy, groovy, groovy': listening to Woodstock 50 years on – all 38 discs”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 05 Jun 2021:
3. (transitive) To elicit the essence of.
4. (transitive) To remove a bodily organ or its contents.
5. (intransitive, of viscera) To protrude through a surgical incision.

Forms

Deriveds

evisceratingly · eviscerator · evisceration · uneviscerated

Synonyms

exenterate

Translations (19)

de bedeutungslos machen (to make ineffectual or meaningless) · hy բովանդակազրկել (to make ineffectual or meaningless) · de unterminieren (to make ineffectual or meaningless) · nl ontkrachten (to make ineffectual or meaningless) · de ausweiden (to remove an organ or its contents) · ru опорожнять (to make ineffectual or meaningless) · ru опустошать (to make ineffectual or meaningless) · nl verzwakken (to make ineffectual or meaningless) · de schwächen (to make ineffectual or meaningless) · fi mitätöidä (to make ineffectual or meaningless) · fi leikata (to protrude through surgical incision) · de entkräften (to make ineffectual or meaningless) · fi poistaa (to remove an organ or its contents) · de Organ entnehmen (to remove an organ or its contents) · fi kiteyttää (to elicit the essence of) · ru выхолащивать (to protrude through surgical incision) · de unterlaufen (to make ineffectual or meaningless) · nl uithollen (to elicit the essence of) · de aushöhlen (to make ineffectual or meaningless)