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Embowel   Listen
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Embowel  v. t.  (past & past part. emboweled or embowelled; pres. part. emboweling or embowelling)  
1.
To disembowel. "The barbarous practice of emboweling." "The boar... makes his trough In your emboweled bosoms." Note: Disembowel is the preferable word in this sense.
2.
To imbed; to hide in the inward parts; to bury. "Or deep emboweled in the earth entire."





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"Embowel" Quotes from Famous Books



... incorrigible, he is become dead in law (I mean the law Epopoeian), and devolveth upon the poet as his property, who may take him and deal with him as if he had been dead as long as an old Egyptian hero; that is to say, embowel and ...
— Poetical Works of Pope, Vol. II • Alexander Pope


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