emboweled

Variant of embowel

transitive verb emboweled or embowelled, emboweling or embowelling

  1. Rare disembowel
  2. Obsolete to embed deeply

Origin: OFr enboweler, altered < esboueler < es- (L ex), out of + bouel, bowel

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