Definition of Embowelling. Meaning of Embowelling. Synonyms of Embowelling

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Definition of Embowelling

Embowelling
Embowel Em*bow"el, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Emboweledor Embowelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Emboweling or Embowelling.] 1. To disembowel. The barbarous practice of emboweling. --Hallam. The boar . . . makes his trough In your emboweled bosoms. --Shak. Note: Disembowel is the preferable word in this sense. 2. To imbed; to hide in the inward parts; to bury. Or deep emboweled in the earth entire. --Spenser.

Meaning of Embowelling from wikipedia

- and he so benumed therewith, as he was enforced to kill his horse, and embowelled him, to creep into his belly to get heat; which not able to preserve him...
- sometimes superadded” to the sentence, such as where the condemned was “embowelled alive, beheaded, and quartered,” or instances of “public dissection in...