verb
- present participle of embowel; to remove the bowels or internal organs from; to disembowel
Usage: archaic; literary
Examples
- The ancient ritual involved emboweling the sacrificial animal.
- Medieval texts describe emboweling as part of certain burial practices.
- The surgeon spoke of emboweling the fish to prepare it for cooking.
- In historical accounts, emboweling was sometimes used as a form of execution.
- The butcher was skilled at emboweling poultry with precision.