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

He turns around and uses that wealth and power in order to eviscerate the very thing that helped create him.

From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2025

Big business has been trying to eviscerate anti-fraud laws for more than a century.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 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

His sister, Beth, eviscerates him on a regular basis.

From New York Times ● Jan. 2, 2023

Good luck trying to look away while she eviscerates the institution.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 18, 2021

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 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

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

From Social Life in the Insect World by Miall, Bernard

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

Courts have allowed the broad electronic privacy protections in the federal Wiretap Act to be eviscerated by companies claiming consent.

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 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

In 551-words, major shareholder Desmond eviscerated his old chum.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 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

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

Sarah Paulson’s Daring Characters: The actress has received a Tony nomination for “Appropriate,” in which she portrays a woman who makes a sport out of verbally eviscerating her family members.

From New York Times ● May 19, 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

Thus caught between two fires the casuists developed a highly ingenious method, not unlike that of the Roman Stoics, for eviscerating the substance of a rule while leaving its shadow carefully intact.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various