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Definitions: Eviscerate |
EviscerateAdjective1. Having been disembowelled. Verb1. 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: EviscerateSynonyms: disembowel (v), draw (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Eviscerate |
| English words defined with "eviscerate": Eviscerated, Eviscerating, Exenterate ♦ Viscerate. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "eviscerate": SUPERVISOR, FISH PROCESSING. (references) |
| Speaker | Phrase(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. | |
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
eviscerate | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 castrar (caponize, castrate, emasculate, gelding, spay). (various references) scoate mãruntaiele (disembowel, draw, embowel), lipsi de conţinut. (various references) выхолащивать (castrate, dilute, emasculate), потрошить (bowel, disembowel, embowel, gut, paunch). (various references) izvaditi drob. (various references) destripar (draw, gut, paunch, to eviscerate, to gut). (various references) 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) เอาส่วนสำคัญออก, เอาอวัยวะ ายในของคนหรือสัตว์ออกมา. (various references) en gerekli şeyden mahrum etmek, içini temizlemek (disembowel), bağırsaklarını çıkarmak (disembowel). (various references) спустошити, потрошити (disembowel, embowel, gut), патрати (gut, paunch). (various references) diberfeddu (disembowel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "eviscerate": eviscerated, eviscerates. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "eviscerate" (pronounced uvi"serā't) |
| 5 | -i" s er ā' t | commiserate. |
| 4 | -s er ā' t | incarcerate, lacerate. |
| 3 | -er ā' t | accelerate, 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. | ||
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 76 69 73 63 65 72 61 74 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01110110 01101001 01110011 01100011 01100101 01110010 01100001 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E v i s c e r a t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0076 0069 0073 0063 0065 0072 0061 0074 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)39887585697184678671 |
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