disembowelment definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: the act ... cutting so as to cause the viscera to protrude [syn: disembowelment, evisceration] Merriam Webster's noun see disembowel Webster's 1913 Dictionary Disembowelment Dis`em*bow"el*ment, n. The act of disemboweling ...
... r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese ... hara belly + kiri cutting Date: 1840 1. ritual suicide by disembowelment practiced by the Japanese samurai or formerly decreed by a ... 2. suicide 1b Oxford Reference Dictionary n. ritual suicide by disembowelment with a sword, formerly practised by Samurai to avoid dishonour ... commanded by the government in the cases of disgraced officials; disembowelment; -- also written, but incorrectly, hari-kari. --W. E. Griffis. Collin ...
... r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese ... 1871 hara-kiri 1 Britannica Concise Japanese ritual suicide by disembowelment, practiced by members of the samurai class. Suicide by disembowelment was favored because it was slow and painful, and therefore ...
... cutting so as to cause the viscera to protrude [syn: disembowelment, evisceration] 3: altering something (as a legislative act or a ... Thesaurus abatement, attenuation, attrition, blunting, damping, deadening, debilitation, devitalization, dilution, disembowelment, dulling, effemination, enervation, enfeeblement, exhaustion, extenuation, fatigue, gutting, inanition, languishment ...
... remove the substance of < a program disemboweled by spending cuts > • disembowelment noun Oxford Reference Dictionary v.tr. (-embowelled, -embowelling; US -emboweled, -emboweling) remove the bowels or entrails of. Derivatives: disembowelment n. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Disembowel Dis`em*bow"el ...