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🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

eviscerar

Pronunciation / Transliteration: eviscerar

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Eviscerate/ɪˈvɪs.ə.reɪt/
verbCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #14200 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"La nueva ley busca eviscerar la corrupción institucional."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To disembowel; to remove the entrails from a body or carcass.

    "The hunter carefully eviscerated the deer in the field."
  2. 2

    To deprive something of its essential content, force, or vitality; to critically weaken or undermine.

    "The new amendments completely eviscerated the original purpose of the bill."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin 'evisceratus', past participle of 'eviscerare', combining the prefix 'e-' (out of, from) with 'viscera' (internal organs). Entering English in the early 17th century, it initially retained its literal anatomical sense before expanding metaphorically to describe the destruction of vitality, arguments, or organizations.

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