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To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate.

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  1. v. t. To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate.
  2. v. t. To take or draw from the body, as the web of a spider.
  3. v. remove the entrails of
  4. 1. To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate. Soon after their death, they are disemboweled. Cook. Roaring floods and cataracts that sweep From disemboweled earth the virgin gold. Thomson. 2. To take or draw from the body, as the web of a spider. [R.] "Her disemboweled web." J. Philips.
  5. v. remove the entrails of