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evisceration
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun evisceration has 3 senses
- evisceration(n = noun.act) Array - surgical removal of an organ (or the contents of an organ) from a patient; Array is a kind of operation, surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process
- evisceration(n = noun.act) disembowelment - the act of removing the bowels or viscera; the act of cutting so as to cause the viscera to protrude; Array is a kind of remotion, removal
- evisceration(n = noun.act) Array - altering something (as a legislative act or a statement) in such a manner as to reduce its value; "the adoption of their amendments would have amounted to an evisceration of the act" is a kind of devaluation
Derived form verb eviscerate3
THESAURUS
evisceration
abatement, attenuation, attrition, blunting, damping, deadening, debilitation, devitalization, dilution, disembowelment, dulling, effemination, enervation, enfeeblement, exhaustion, extenuation, fatigue, gutting, inanition, languishment, mitigation, reduction, relaxation, slackening, softening, thinning, weakening
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