eviscerate

  1. Verb.  (transitive) To disembowel, to remove the viscera.
  2. Verb.  (transitive) To destroy or make ineffectual or meaningless.
  3. Verb.  (transitive) To elicit the essence of.
  4. Verb.  (transitive, surgery) To remove a bodily organ or its contents.
  5. Verb.  (intransitive, of viscera) To protrude through a surgical incision.

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