unpaunch

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verb

To eviscerate, disembowel (an animal).

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Meanings

verbunpaunch (third-person singular simple present unpaunches, present participle unpaunching, simple past and past participle unpaunched)

present singular third person unpaunches · participle present unpaunching · participle past unpaunched · past unpaunched

  1. To eviscerate, disembowel (an animal).
    1 more example

    The armie which the Emperor Bajareth had sent into Russia, was overwhelmed by so horrible a tempest of snow, that to find some shelter, and to save themselves from the extremitie of the cold, many advised to kill and unpanch [translating eventrer] their horses, and enter into their panches, to enjoy and find some ease by that vitall heat.

    1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 48, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

Origin

From un- + paunch.

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APA

unpaunch. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unpaunch

MLA

“unpaunch.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unpaunch. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unpaunch,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unpaunch.

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