- past tense form of disembowel.
- past participle of disembowel.
disemboweled
Example Sentences
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Keck’s horizontal equestrian sculpture, which intimates occupation of the land, became Walker’s vertical, a grotesque standing humanoid, disemboweled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2025
Director and screenwriter Scott Cooper builds tension with a series of seemingly unconnected clues — a note fragment, a military jacket missing a decoration, some animals disemboweled.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 6, 2023
We learn, for example, in a passage about the Vesuvius eruption, that the Renaissance scholar Francis Bacon died not long after stuffing a disemboweled hen with snow.
From New York Times ● Dec. 10, 2019
It was, I realized, a textbook illustration of the deep-seated dislike many men have for leopard print—the fear that they, too, might be disemboweled and displayed by the woman in the glistening pelt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2018
The centaur’s foil-capped head emerged from the belly of a disemboweled hard drive.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
