evisceration.

1. The removal or exposure of internal organs, especially abdominal contents.

2. The stripping away of a thing’s essential force or content.

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Words that belong together

• surgical evisceration

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The account described surgical evisceration.

The injury resulted in evisceration.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.