'Evisceration' definitions:
Definition of 'evisceration'
(from WordNet)
noun
Surgical removal of an organ (or the contents of an organ) from a patient
noun
The act of removing the bowels or viscera; the act of cutting so as to cause the viscera to protrude [syn: disembowelment, evisceration]
noun
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"
Definition of 'Evisceration'
From: GCIDE
- Evisceration \E*vis`cer*a"tion\, a. A disemboweling. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'evisceration'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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