Meanings
verbdisbowel (third-person singular simple present disbowels, present participle (US) disboweling or (UK) disbowelling, simple past and past participle (US) disboweled or (UK) disbowelled)
present singular third person disbowels · US participle present disboweling · UK participle present disbowelling · US participle past disboweled · US past disboweled · UK participle past disbowelled · UK past disbowelled
- To disembowel.
[…] a great Oke drie and dead, […] Whose foote in ground hath left but feeble holde; But halfe disbowel'd lies aboue the ground, […]
1591, Edmund Spenser, “Ruines of Rome: by Bellay”, in Complaints, sonnet 28
Origin
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APA
disbowel. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disbowel
MLA
“disbowel.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disbowel. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “disbowel,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disbowel.
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