What does embowel mean?
Definitions for embowel
ɛmˈbaʊ əl, -ˈbaʊlem·bow·el
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embowelverb
To enclose or bury.
embowelverb
To remove the bowels; disembowel.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To Embowelverb
To eviscerate; to deprive of the entrails; to exenterate.
Etymology: from bowel.
The schools,
Embowelled of their doctrine, have left off
The danger to itself. William Shakespeare, All’s well that ends well.Embowell’d will I see thee by and by;
’Till then, in blood, by noble Percy lye. William Shakespeare, Henry IV.The roar
Embowel’d with outrageous noise the air,
And all her entrails tore. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. vi.Fossils and minerals that th’ embowel’d earth
Displays. Phillips.
Webster Dictionary
Embowelverb
to disembowel
Embowelverb
to imbed; to hide in the inward parts; to bury
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Embowel
em-bow′el, v.t. properly, to enclose in something else; but also used for disembowel, to remove the entrails from:—pr.p. embow′elling; pa.p. embow′elled.—n. Embow′elment. [Em, in, into, and bowel.]
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of embowel in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of embowel in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
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