exenterate Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb remove the contents of (an organ)

WordNet


Ex*en"ter*ate transitive verb
Etymology
L. exenteratus, p.p. of exenterare; cf. Gr. out + intestine.
Definitions
  1. To take out the bowels or entrails of; to disembowel; to eviscerate; as, exenterated fishes. R.
    Exenterated rule-mongers and eviscerated logicians. Hare.

Webster 1913