- present participle of gut.
gutting
Example Sentences
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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
"As gutting as it is to miss another Slam, the advice is not to rush straight back into playing five set tennis on clay."
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 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
“I know intimately how gutting it is to be a borrower, just sitting on the phone with a loan servicer as you try to navigate your options,” she said.
From Salon ● Mar. 17, 2026
As I was thinking this I saw an old servant woman stooping over the same low table gutting a fish, looking at me from the corner of her eye.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
