disembowel

Since she’s played by Frances McDormand, the most famous face in the cast and an actor who could disembowel the patriarchy in her sleep, the abruptness of her departure feels particularly pointed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2022

Teams of workers snap laptops in half, smash screens, disembowel computers, and cripple keyboards.

From The Verge ● Jun. 22, 2016

But The Revenant, which called for him to wear several yards of beard, disembowel a bison, and crawl wearily through miles of ice fields, has surely done the trick.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 16, 2015

The New York Public Library wanted to disembowel its historic building at 42nd Street before thinking better of it.

From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2014

All interceded for him, but Petronius felt somewhat indignant at such an oversight, and said he must be a careless rascal to forget to disembowel a hog.

From History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour by L'Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingan

In . . . intervals passive, idling and greedy, she munches apples . . . disembowels chocolate eclairs arranges the fire . . lights some sticks of what she calls 'smell-good.'

From Time Magazine Archive

Once the kill is made, the lion disembowels the beast very neatly indeed, and drags the entrails a few feet out of the way.

From The Land of Footprints by White, Stewart Edward

He disembowels it, scrutinizing the internal evidences of its structure and history, and thence infers the causes of past vicissitudes, existing relations, and appearances.

From An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges by Anonymous

A taxidermist of the Past, Present and Future; one who disembowels, stuffs and mounts all the gods, living and dead; one who fills up with straw and sawdust all illusions.

From The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days. by Hubbard, Elbert

At the approach of the breeding season, before the eggs are laid, the Ephippigera turns upon her still living mate, disembowels him, and eats as much of him as her appetite will allow.

From Social Life in the Insect World by Miall, Bernard

These days Chen, now 49 and sporting closely cropped hair with just a hint of gray, is not worried about being disemboweled during lunch.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 27, 2023

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

Leaning more by the day toward the sea, their disemboweled husks now hang, like the country, in a state of slow-motion collapse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2021

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

After Bo expertly disemboweled or shredded every last dog toy bought for him by the staff who did our regular shopping, I personally escorted him over to PetSmart in Alexandria one morning.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

As Lebanon marks the 47th anniversary of the start of the war on Wednesday, Ghassan's daughter and other relatives of those killed in the blast are fighting government plans to demolish the disembowelled silos.

From Reuters ● Apr. 13, 2022

Hill sides were strewn with debris and dotted by houses disembowelled by the storms powerful winds.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2017

It is disembowelled without the hide being taken off, and, since there can be no hide, there can be no quarry.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

I can give him up my own bedroom, and sleep myself in an old harpsichord, which I bought cheap at a sale, and disembowelled into a species of deceptive bed.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 25, 1841 by Various

Look at that square of ground, that space of God's earth that was once sweet and fair, torn, desecrated, disembowelled!

From The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

I know I wasn't supposed to, but the second time I watched the emotionally disemboweling prestige weeper "Dear Edward," the Apple TV+ adaptation of Ann Napolitano's best-selling 2020 novel, I thought of Prince Harry.

From Salon ● Feb. 26, 2023

“But elephants are also living tanks, capable of killing, disemboweling, knocking down houses, and eating a farmer’s entire crop for the season. Human-elephant conflict can go both ways.”

From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2022

As usual, Signor Mussolini managed in his discourse to turn several familiar ideas inside out, disemboweling them with hearty, ogrish gust.

From Time Magazine Archive

The grim allegory, showing a U.S. soldier disemboweling a Japanese Frankenstein monster behind which looms an equally monstrous Nazi ogre, is the largest of seven pictures just completed by Artist Thomas Hart Benton.

From Time Magazine Archive

Strange, but it felt normal to be disemboweling fish together.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

The dim twilight of early morning found him poking about, like a solitary ghoul, disembowelling the pillar posts.

From Post Haste by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

Here were beings created in the likeness of their Maker, whose criterion of superiority over other animals was in these symbols and not in that of tooth, claw, or talon, disembowelling their fellow creatures.

From The Last Shot by Palmer, Frederick

On either hand, at every hundred yards, instead of the houseless, disembowelling paepaes of Nuka-hiva, populous houses turned out their inhabitants to cry “Kaoha!” to the passers-by.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

He looked over to Nap, who fiercely battled with a sofa cushion, and was now disembowelling it through a rent in the cover.

From Bunker Bean by Wilson, Harry Leon

Man consumes the treasures of the earth faster than he produces them, deforesting its surface and disembowelling its hidden wealth.

From The Constitution of the United States A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution by Beck, James M. (James Montgomery)