- present participle of gut.
gutting
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"It's gutting to be the first out," Rajan said afterwards, noting that perhaps it was because he had been "a bit bullish with Richard" earlier in the day.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
President Nixon admitted, in effect, that he was gutting the international monetary system by cutting loose the dollar from the gold-price peg, the Journal wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
Damon’s Odysseus is numbed by the massacre of Troy’s civilians; Fiennes’ hates himself for leading the best men of Ithaca to their death, gutting his own community in the heedless destruction of another.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
In all, Alico began gutting 53,000 citrus acres at the end of the 2025 harvest: 35 percent of Florida’s citrus production, condemned in one press release.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026
“After you gut a few thousand chickens,” Galen said dryly, “you’ll either get really good at it, or you’ll stop gutting chickens.”
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
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