evisceration
evisceration Lexical Profile
evisceration Game Scores & Validity
• noun
The act of depriving something of its vital content, essential meaning, or effectiveness, or of subjecting someone or something to devastating criticism.
"The committee strongly opposed the gradual evisceration of environmental regulations over the past decade."
The act or process of removing the internal organs or entrails from a body or carcass; disembowelment.
"Archaeological records detail the careful evisceration of bodies as the first stage of ancient Egyptian mummification."
In surgery, the removal of the inner contents of an organ (especially the eyeball while leaving the sclera intact) or the protrusion of internal organs through a surgical incision.
"The ophthalmologist explained the differences between ocular evisceration and complete enucleation of the eye."
• Rhymes for evisceration
Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the late 16th century from Late Latin eviscerationem, a noun of action from the verb eviscerare ('to disembowel'), formed from ex- ('out') and viscera ('internal organs').