disembowelling
Speech parts
1. disembowelling - Noun
2. disembowelling - Verb
Derived from disembowel
Meaning
disembowelling
(chiefly Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa) present participle of disembowel
disembowelling (plural disembowellings)
The act by which somebody is disembowelled.
Synonyms
Examples
Another defensive tactic described by witnesses is catching the attacking dog with the forepaws and disembowelling it with the hind legs.
Such was the public outcry at the horror of their execution that Elizabeth changed the order for the second group to be allowed to hang until "quite dead" before disembowelling and quartering.
The catalogue of horrors includes the disembowelling of pregnant women, the slamming of babies' heads against brick walls, the cutting off of victims limbs and genitalia and the display of heads and corpses.