verb
- to remove the bowels or internal organs from; to disembowel or eviscerate
Usage: archaic; formal
Examples
- The hunter had to embowel the deer before transporting it.
- In medieval times, criminals were sometimes emboweled as part of their execution.
- The butcher emboweled the fish with a single practiced motion.
- Ancient embalmers would embowel the body before mummification.
- The surgeon carefully emboweled the specimen for anatomical study.