eviscerate

present singular third person eviscerates · participle present eviscerating · participle past eviscerated · past eviscerated

1. transitiveTo disembowel; to remove the viscera.

   Desecrate me / Tear me limb from limb / Eviscerate me / Chew me to death

   2004, “Eaten”, in Nightmares Made Flesh (Death Metal), performed by Bloodbath, Sweden

2. colloquialfigurativelytransitiveTo destroy or make ineffectual or meaningless.

   Earlier the gentleman from California (Mr. Cardoza) got up on the floor, and he was upset that somebody had said that the underlying bill would eviscerate the Endangered Species Act.

   2005, Congress, Congressional Record, volume 151, part 16, page 21847

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   Coming on stage at sunrise on the Sunday, Jefferson Airplane greet the new day explaining they’re not a “hippie band” but “manic morning music”, then eviscerate Fred Neil’s Other Side of Life. Somebody to Love is also taken at breakneck speed – this turns out to be an energy tablet before a leaden day.

   2019 August 15, Bob Stanley, “'Groovy, groovy, groovy': listening to Woodstock 50 years on – all 38 discs”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 05 Jun 2021

3. transitiveTo elicit the essence of.
4. transitivemedicineTo remove a bodily organ or its contents.
5. intransitiveTo protrude through a surgical incision.