- to remove the entrails from; disembowel: to eviscerate a chicken.
- to deprive of vital or essential parts: The censors eviscerated the book to make it inoffensive to the leaders of the party.
- to remove the contents of (a body organ).
- to remove the internal organs of; disembowel
- to deprive of meaning or significance
- to remove the contents of (the eyeball or other organ)
- (of the viscera) to protrude through a weakened abdominal incision after an operation
- having been disembowelled
