eviscerate

If something went awry, as things generally did, Jobs would find a scapegoat to eviscerate, preferably in front of everyone else.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 17, 2026

But falling land prices make it hard to borrow money, send loans into default, eviscerate the tax collections that pay for public services, and prompt foreclosures, financial panic, and job loss.

From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2025

Corker noted the NCAA’s contention that allowing so-called NIL collectives to offer deals to recruits would eviscerate the difference between college athletics and professional sports.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2024

Melt caves will eviscerate more and more glaciers—creating lakes that could release devastating floods.

From National Geographic ● Jan. 10, 2024

He was able to eviscerate opponents with his eloquence and intellect.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Without a single scene of jungle combat, “Absolution” eviscerates the systems behind the Vietnam War.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2023

As is often the case, she speaks for the audience as the show knowingly eviscerates its male characters’ macho toxicity.

From New York Times ● Nov. 26, 2021

Pierceson Coody steps in first and tees his ball, then eviscerates a drive that, when it finally lands, bounces and disappears over a ripple in the fairway some 315 yards away.

From Golf Digest ● Dec. 2, 2019

She eviscerates moral philosophers who believe that moral rules can be utterly divorced from biology and find a foundation based on reasoning alone.

From Nature ● May 27, 2019

It falls upon the tiny Crickets, eviscerates them, and devours them with frantic greed.

From Social Life in the Insect World by Bernard Miall

When Callum McGregor eviscerated his own team-mates in the wake of Celtic's stupefying Champions League collapse against LASK, he delivered their one coherent moment of a spineless night.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

But she’s overwrought in saying Section 2 is now eviscerated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

And this influencer, with a sharp blond bob and glass skin, is trying on jackets at a small-town Goodwill, where the merchandise has not yet been eviscerated by other consumers completing their own “hauls.”

From Slate ● Jan. 26, 2026

With the help of Elon Musk and DOGE, the largest funding agency for humanitarian and development aid worldwide was eviscerated.

From Salon ● Nov. 19, 2025

They'll be quoted, parsed, fact-checked, eviscerated by those who disagree, and then forgotten in the wake of new blurbs that come out tomorrow.

From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon

Anyone who knows Early’s comedy knows that even his most eviscerating jokes have an undercurrent of love and hope.

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026

Many responded so negatively that Hilty turned off her comments for a while as hundreds made posts across social media eviscerating or satirizing the series.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2025

In announcing the Eugene outlet, Doctor noted that like Santa Cruz, “the area has seen the result of chain ownership eviscerating a once-well-established daily,” The Register-Guard.

From Seattle Times ● May 8, 2024

But in an opinion on Tuesday eviscerating his assertion, three federal appeals court judges portrayed his position as not only wrong on the law but also repellent.

From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 2024

Though his superior in sheer strength, she was much smaller and lighter than he, and less murderously armed for combat; and she dreaded the raking, eviscerating clutch of his terrible hinder claws.

From The House in the Water A Book of Animal Stories by Charles Livingston Bull