- past tense form of disembowel.
- past participle of disembowel.
disemboweled
Example Sentences
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Director and screenwriter Scott Cooper builds tension with a series of seemingly unconnected clues — a note fragment, a military jacket missing a decoration, some animals disemboweled.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 6, 2023
Leaning more by the day toward the sea, their disemboweled husks now hang, like the country, in a state of slow-motion collapse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2021
It was, I realized, a textbook illustration of the deep-seated dislike many men have for leopard print—the fear that they, too, might be disemboweled and displayed by the woman in the glistening pelt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2018
Behind the screen’s simulated 3-D workplace is an apparatus — part Rube Goldberg device, part disemboweled pinball machine.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 17, 2015
I found some straws that need to be disemboweled.
From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway
