Embowelled

Embowelled
Embowel Em*bow"el, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Emboweled}or {Embowelled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Emboweling} or {Embowelling}.] 1. To disembowel. [1913 Webster]

The barbarous practice of emboweling. --Hallam. [1913 Webster]

The boar . . . makes his trough In your emboweled bosoms. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Note: Disembowel is the preferable word in this sense. [1913 Webster]

2. To imbed; to hide in the inward parts; to bury. [1913 Webster]

Or deep emboweled in the earth entire. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.

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