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boweled

Variant of bowel

noun

  1. an intestine, esp. of a human being; gut: usually used in pl.
  2. the interior or inner part: the bowels of the mountain
  3. Archaic the inside of the body, regarded as the source of pity, tenderness, etc.; hence, tender emotions

transitive verb boweled or bowelled, boweling or bowelling

to disembowel

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