evisceration, n.
(eviscerations)
(eviscerations)
altering something (as a legislative act or a statement) in such a manner as to reduce its value
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evisceration
sample sentences
"the adoption of their amendments would have amounted to an evisceration of the act"
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the act of removing the bowels or viscera; the act of cutting so as to cause the viscera to protrude
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disembowelment evisceration
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derivationally related form
semantic pointers
hypernym
surgical removal of an organ (or the contents of an organ) from a patient
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evisceration
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