1. disembowel (a person or animal): formal"the goat had been skinned and neatly eviscerated"
▪ deprive (something) of its essential content: formal"myriad little concessions that would eviscerate the project"
▪ remove the contents of (a body organ).formal
Word Originlate 16th century: from Latin eviscerat- ‘disembowelled’, from the verb eviscerare, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out’ + viscera ‘internal organs’.