as in to clean
to take the internal organs out of ancient Roman prophets would disembowel animals in order to read the future from their entrails

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Recent Examples of disembowel The man’s fears are realized when the monkey suddenly begins banging his drum, with a Rube Goldberg-style series of events causing the proprietor to get graphically disemboweled. Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2025 On Thursday, federal worker groups sued the administration, accusing Trump of violating the Constitution by systematically disemboweling the agency without congressional approval. Anna Maria Barry-Jester, ProPublica, 9 Feb. 2025 Sergio Leone’s gangster opus spanned 229 minutes in its original European cut — the director initially wanted to release it in two three-hour parts — then got reduced to 139 minutes by its American distributors with the predictable effects of arbitrarily disemboweling 90 minutes of a film. Kevin Lincoln, Vulture, 20 Jan. 2025 Then Morita failed to disembowel himself before he, too, was decapitated. Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for disembowel
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  • Micellar water is also an excellent, gentle option for cleaning makeup brushes.
    Christa Joanna Lee, Allure, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Pilot projects underway The latest solutions from Miami-Dade County to fix the polluted bay include three new projects to improve infrastructure — all different variations on advanced filters to clean dirty street water.
    Courtney Heath, Miami Herald, 1 Apr. 2025
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  • Following the act of protest, the referee of the University of Maryland match -- which was not an NCAA tournament -- issued a black card to Turner, removing her from the competition.
    Leah Sarnoff, ABC News, 4 Apr. 2025
  • On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on whether or not South Carolina can remove Planned Parenthood clinics from the state's Medicaid program.
    Drew Hawkins, NPR, 3 Apr. 2025
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  • Vought has returned to his post as the budget office’s director, and his plans for eviscerating entire agencies and decimating the morale of federal workers have turned into reality.
    Stephen Engelberg, ProPublica, 20 Mar. 2025
  • No one else would have had the chutzpah, or the clout, to so eviscerate a powerful, theocratic Black family and, in so doing, to chart the price that political parents invariably extract from their kids, children who did not sign up for any kind of campaign to whom no benefits accrue.
    Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 18 Mar. 2025

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“Disembowel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disembowel. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.

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