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em⋅bow⋅el

  [em-bou-uhl, -boul]
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–verb (used with object), -eled, -el⋅ing or (especially British) -elled, -el⋅ling.
1. to disembowel.
2. Obsolete. to enclose.
Origin:
1515–25; em- 1 + bowel
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em·bow·el   (ěm-bou'əl)   
tr.v.   em·bow·eled or em·bow·elled, em·bow·el·ing or em·bow·el·ling, em·bow·els

  1. To disembowel.

  2. Obsolete To enclose.


[Obsolete French emboueler, alteration of Old French esbouler : es-, out of (from Latin ex-; see ex-) + Old French boeler (from boel, bouele, entrails; see bowel). Sense 2 : en-1 + bowel.]
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