disembowel• It's like offering an elastoplast to somebody who has just been disembowelled.• She felt it go as if her body had been disembowelled.• This is a war in which children and babies have frequently had their throats cut, and pregnant women been disembowelled.• Sure enough, right in front of her astonishedonlookers, she set about disembowelling a deadchick.• They had an instrument for disembowelling him which they waved aloft in the highest court in the land.• Yorick had disembowelled himself, messily but effectively, with his samuraisword.• I seriously considered disembowelling Ian for this, but on reflection that would be a little harsh.