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Eviscerate

Definitions: Eviscerate

Eviscerate

Adjective

1. Having been disembowelled.

Verb

1. Remove the entrails of; "draw a chicken".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Note: Eviscerate \E*vis"cer*ate\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Eviscerated; present participle verb or noun Eviscerating.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Eviscerate

Synonyms: disembowel (v), draw (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Eviscerate

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Ejection

Embowel, disbowel, disembowel; eviscerate, gut; unearth, root out, root up; averuncate; weed out, get out; eliminate, get rid of, do away with, shake off; exenterate.

Extraction

Remove; educe, elicit; evolve, extricate; eliminate; (eject); eviscerate.

Killing

Saber; cut down, cut to pieces, cut the throat; jugulate; stab, run through the body, bayonet, eviscerate; put to the sword, put to the edge of the sword.

Weakness

Render weak; Adjective: weaken, enfeeble, debilitate, shake, deprive of strength, relax, enervate, eviscerate; unbrace, unnerve; cripple, unman; (render powerless); cramp, reduce, sprain, strain, blunt the edge of; dilute, impoverish; decimate; extenuate; reduce in strength, reduce the strength of; mettre de l'eau dans son vin.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Eviscerate

English words defined with "eviscerate": Eviscerated, Eviscerating, ExenterateViscerate. (references)
Specialty definitions using "eviscerate": SUPERVISOR, FISH PROCESSING. (references)

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Spoken Usage: Eviscerate

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Rush Limbaugh

They've joined with the federal government in trying to eviscerate our rights, yet we're supposed to be outraged at this subpoena against the media.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Eviscerate

"Eviscerate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Eviscerate" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)66.67%2245,945
Lexical Verb (base form)33.33%1339,140
                    Total100.00%3N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Eviscerate

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  eviscerate

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Eviscerate

Language Translations for "eviscerate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

rropullit, nxjerr të brendshmet, i heq kuptim, i heq diçka thelbësore. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏نزع الاحشاء, ‏سلبه القوة, ‏أزال (abstract, assuage, ax, axe, bulldoze, clear, clear away, declassify, dismantle, dispel, eliminate, enucleate, excise, obliterate, preclude, put aside, relieve, remove, rest, retrench, rid, rub, rub out, settle, slip, smooth, stave off, suppress, take away). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

лишавам от съдържание, изтърбушвам (disembowel, draw, paunch), изкормвам (gut), изпразвам (clear out, deflate, deplenish, deplete, discharge, dismantle, empty, exhaust, unload). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

取出内脏 (Eviscerated, Eviscerating). (various references)

   

Czech

  

vykuchat (cannibalize, clean, disembowel, Gib). (various references)

   

Danish

  

tage indvolde ud af (to eviscerate, to gut). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

van de ingewanden ontdoen (to eviscerate, to gut), schoonmaken (clean, cleaning, cleanse, dirt removal, make clean, purge, to eviscerate, to gut). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

irrottaa sisäelimet (to eviscerate, to gut). (various references)

   

French

  

affaiblir, éviscérer (to eviscerate), éventrer. (various references)

   

German

  

bedeutungslos machen. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ξεκοιλιάζω (disembowel, gut), εξεντερίζω (to eviscerate, to gut). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ל"וציא את "קרבים, ל"וציא את "עקר. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kizsigerel (gut, to disembowel, to eviscerate, to gut), kibelez (bowel, cannibalize, disembowel, drawn, drew, embowel, Gill, gut, to cannibalize, to disembowel, to draw, to eviscerate, to gut). (various references)

   

Italian

  

sventrare (gut, to open). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

창자를 끄집어 내십시". (various references)

   

Manx

  

tayrn y minnagh ass. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eviscerateay

   

Portuguese

  

castrar (caponize, castrate, emasculate, gelding, spay). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

scoate mãruntaiele (disembowel, draw, embowel), lipsi de conţinut. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

выхолащивать (castrate, dilute, emasculate), потрошить (bowel, disembowel, embowel, gut, paunch). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

izvaditi drob. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

destripar (draw, gut, paunch, to eviscerate, to gut). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

tömma (clear, clear out, deplenish, deplete, drain, drink, dumping, empty, pour, vacate), ta inälvorna ur (disembowel), rensa (clean, cleanse, clear, draw, dress, fettle, gut, Hull, make clean, pick, pick over, purge, sanitize, scour, shell, weed). (various references)

   

Thai

  

เอาส่วนสำคัญออก, เอาอวัยวะ ายในของคนหรือสัตว์ออกมา. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

en gerekli şeyden mahrum etmek, içini temizlemek (disembowel), bağırsaklarını çıkarmak (disembowel). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

спустошити, потрошити (disembowel, embowel, gut), патрати (gut, paunch). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

diberfeddu (disembowel). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Eviscerate

Derivations

Words beginning with "eviscerate": eviscerated, eviscerates. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Eviscerate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ebiscerate, enviscerate, evicerate, eviserate. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Eviscerate"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "eviscerate" (pronounced uvi"serā't)
5-i" s er ā' tcommiserate.
4-s er ā' tincarcerate, lacerate.
3-er ā' taccelerate, adulterate, agglomerate, ameliorate, collaborate, commemorate, cooperate, corroborate, decelerate, decorate, deteriorate, enumerate, evaporate, exaggerate, exasperate, exhilarate, exonerate, federate, generate, inaugurate, incinerate, incorporate, invigorate, liberate, obliterate, operate, perforate, proliferate, recuperate, redecorate, refrigerate, regenerate, reincorporate, reinvigorate, reiterate, reverberate, saturate, separate, tolerate, venerate.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Eviscerate

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-e-i-r-s-t-v"

-1 letter: secretive.

-2 letters: creative, eateries, erective, evictees, reactive, receives, vertices, vesicate.

-3 letters: actives, aeriest, cerates, cerites, creates, cristae, ecartes, eeriest, evictee, raciest, receive, recites, restive, scrieve, secrete, seriate, service, stearic, tierces, varices, vastier, veeries, veriest, veritas, verites, vesicae, viscera.

-4 letters: active, aeries, airest, aivers, aretes, averse, averts, carets, caries, cartes, carves, caster, caters, cavers, cavies.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-e-i-r-s-t-v"
 

+1 letter: eviscerated, eviscerates.

 

+2 letters: advertencies, creativeness, decemvirates, inveteracies, reactiveness.

 

+3 letters: inadvertences, overmedicates.

 

+4 letters: creativenesses, decorativeness, inadvertencies, reactivenesses, refractiveness, verticalnesses.

 

+5 letters: cooperativeness, lucrativenesses, neoconservative, overcentralizes.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Eviscerate


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 76 69 73 63 65 72 61 74 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01110110 01101001 01110011 01100011 01100101 01110010 01100001 01110100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#118 &#105 &#115 &#99 &#101 &#114 &#97 &#116 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0076 0069 0073 0063 0065 0072 0061 0074 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

39887585697184678671

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Spoken
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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