disembowel Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb remove the entrails of
    eviscerate; draw.
    • draw a chicken

WordNet

Dis`em*bow"el transitive verb
Etymology
See Embowel.
Definitions
  1. To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate.
    Soon after their death, they are disemboweled. Cook.
    Roaring floods and cataracts that sweep From disemboweled earth the virgin gold. Thomson.
  2. To take or draw from the body, as the web of a spider. R. "Her disemboweled web." J. Philips.

Webster 1913