disbowel
English
Etymology
Verb
disbowel (third-person singular simple present disbowels, present participle (US) disboweling or (UK) disbowelling, simple past and past participle (US) disboweled or (UK) disbowelled)
- To disembowel.
- 1591, Edmund Spenser, “Ruines of Rome: by Bellay”, in Complaints, sonnet 28:
- […] a great Oke drie and dead,
[…]
Whose foote in ground hath left but feeble holde;
But halfe disbowel'd lies aboue the ground, […]
References
- “disbowel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.