Definition of "disemboweling" [disemboweling]

• Present participle of disembowel. (verb)
• The act by which somebody is disemboweled. (noun)

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• "In 2008, the Supreme Court ruled that lethal injection was not "cruel and unusual punishment," like other methods of execution, "such as disemboweling, beheading, quartering, dissecting, and burning alive, all of which share the deliberate infliction of pain for the sake of pain.""
• "I can distinctly recall growing very impatient with the kind of critical study in which the writer takes umbrage with some, often minor, point that another critic has made, and proceeds to spend the next 250 pages disemboweling that point, along with the critic who made it."
• "By the third obligatory sex scene (or the second obligatory and unconvincing disemboweling, I can't recall), I was nodding off."