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e⋅vis⋅cer⋅ate

  [v. i-vis-uh-reyt; adj. i-vis-er-it, -uh-reyt] verb, -at⋅ed, -at⋅ing, adjective
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–verb (used with object)
1. to remove the entrails from; disembowel: to eviscerate a chicken.
2. to deprive of vital or essential parts: The censors eviscerated the book to make it inoffensive to the leaders of the party.
3. Surgery. to remove the contents of (a body organ).
Origin:
1600–10; < L ēviscerātus, ptp. of ēviscerāre to deprive of entrails, tear to pieces, equiv. to ē- e- + viscer(a) viscera + -ātus -ate 1

Related forms:
e⋅vis⋅cer⋅a⋅tion, noun
e⋅vis⋅cer⋅a⋅tor, noun
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e·vis·cer·ate   (ĭ-vĭs'ə-rāt')   
v.   e·vis·cer·at·ed, e·vis·cer·at·ing, e·vis·cer·ates

v.   tr.
  1. To remove the entrails of; disembowel.
  2. To take away a vital or essential part of: a compromise that eviscerated the proposed bill.
  3. Medicine
    1. To remove the contents of (an organ).
    2. To remove an organ, such as an eye, from (a patient).
v.   intr. Medicine
To protrude through a wound or surgical incision.

[Latin ēviscerāre, ēviscerāt- : ē-, ex-, ex- + viscera, internal organs; see viscera.]
e·vis'cer·a'tion n.
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Eviscerate

E*vis"cer*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Eviscerated; p. pr. & vb. n. Eviscerating.] [L. evisceratus, p. p. of eviscerare to eviscerate; e out + viscera the bowels. See Viscera.] To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; to gut.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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eviscerate 
1607, from L. evisceratus, pp. of eviscerare, from ex- "out" + viscera "internal organs." Sometimes used 17c. in fig. sense of "to bring out the deepest secrets of."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry: evis·cer·ate
Pronunciation: i-'vis-&-"rAt
Function: verb
Inflected Forms: -at·ed; -at·ing
transitivesenses
1 : to remove the viscera of
2 : to remove an organ from (a patient) or the contents of (an organ) eviscerate intransitive senses
: to protrude through a surgical incision or suffer protrusion of a part through an incision
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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