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 didn’t know anyone who could eviscerate someone with words quite like Aunt Hila.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

She pulls from Karl Marx and eviscerates the mind-set of those she calls “productivity bros.”

From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2023

The culminating tussle causes massive damage on screen, but it’s the heavy CGI that truly eviscerates whatever drama might be had.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 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

Trillions of dollars were created out of thin air and then eviscerated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026

The match-winning try scored by Italy utility back Leonardo Marin once again involved a line-break in the 10-metre channel - a microcosm of England's vulnerabilities out wide after being eviscerated there by Scotland and Ireland.

From BBC ● Mar. 13, 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

Rural hospitals and community health programs stand to be eviscerated.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 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

They melt down publicly, with Moore’s Linda famously eviscerating a suspicious pharmacist, and privately, with Cruise’s Frank raging at the dying of his father’s light.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2024

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

She submitted her resignation letter to the prime minister and published the eviscerating text on Mail Online.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2023

Instead of being a volcano “close at hand,” it was Krakatoa eviscerating itself a hundred miles off, and the sound of its last grand effort “extended over 50 degrees, equal to about 3000 miles.”

From Blown to Bits The Lonely Man of Rakata, the Malay Archipelago by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne