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disembowelling

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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.

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Another defensive tactic described by witnesses is catching the attacking dog with the forepaws and disembowelling it with the hind legs. Source: Internet

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. Source: Internet

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. Source: Internet

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