gutted
Example Sentences
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"I'm gutted to imagine him looking out into the audience and not seeing his dad there," he added.
From BBC
Pervasive surveillance, electronic tracking and biometric profiling—together known as “digital dust”—have gutted traditional undercover operations.
With these proposed changes, the site’s teaching artists were laid off, the younger students’ programming was gutted and practices for the older students were reduced.
From Los Angeles Times
Abandoned for years, it is scarred by soot from a 2014 fire that gutted parts of the structure.
From BBC
In the 1970s and 1980s, green-screen terminals gutted roles built around narrow, routine tasks.
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