Word info

disembowelled

Verb

The word is derived from disembowel

Examples

Titus... he started well... soon became greedy... disembowelled on the Tiber steps... he's dead, died screaming... Peter Greenaway

He was quickly cut down, and while still fully conscious was castrated, disembowelled, and then quartered, along with the three other prisoners. Source: Internet

Hugh Despenser the Younger was put on trial, declared a traitor and sentenced to be drawn, disembowelled, castrated and quartered; he was duly executed on 24 November 1326. Source: Internet

In order to save himself from dying of exposure, he killed his horse, disembowelled it and crept inside the warm carcass for shelter. Source: Internet

For example, in the opening scene, Alarbus has his face skinned alive, and is then disembowelled and set on fire. Source: Internet

ISBN 1841141720 : p.250–251 The taking of stone started to change the Dartmoor landscape: for example Eric Hemery (writing in 1983) stated that Swell Tor had been "decapitated and disembowelled by the quarrymen". Source: Internet

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