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

Bass warned that the measure would eviscerate funding for public safety and other services.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2025

She rarely shows up in viral clips because she doesn’t tend to eviscerate anyone or lose it on air.

From Slate ● May 15, 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

Peters doesn’t just eviscerate, though; she also eviscerates the impulse to eviscerate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2021

I do not share his withering trans-Atlantic accent, his soigné wardrobe, his social coziness with the people he eviscerates in his column, nor his love for making and destroying reputations overnight.

From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2020

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

Emily Wilson, the classicist who in a review eviscerated Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” isn’t done with Homer’s epic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

The low-budget action thriller was self-financed, heavily restricted in the director’s home country of Germany and eviscerated by the movie critics who wrote about it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 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

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

The Tokyo organizers estimated that they lost $3 billion since the pandemic severely limited the number of spectators allowed to gather for events, eviscerating ticket sales and sponsorhip revenue.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

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

But while Justice Beale was eviscerating of Patterson on Monday, Mr Wilkinson was his characteristically gracious self.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2025

“If we can just all agree that we don’t agree, we might make some progress instead of eviscerating each other and canceling each other.”

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 29, 2024

When the eye is destroyed by panophthalmitis, the propriety of eviscerating or enucleating it will have to be considered.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles