Definition of "eviscerate"

eviscerate

/ɪˈvɪsəˌɹeɪt/

verb
third-person singular simple present eviscerates, present participle eviscerating, simple past and past participle eviscerated
1. (transitive) To disembowel; to remove the viscera.
  Quotations
  Desecrate me / Tear me limb from limb / Eviscerate me / Chew me to death
  2004, Bloodbath, Eaten
2. (transitive) To destroy or make ineffectual or meaningless.
  Quotations
  Coming on stage at sunrise on the Sunday, Jefferson Airplane greet the new day explaining they’re not a “hippie band” but “manic morning music”, then eviscerate Fred Neil’s Other Side of Life. Somebody to Love is also taken at breakneck speed – this turns out to be an energy tablet before a leaden day.
  2019 August 15, Bob Stanley, “'Groovy, groovy, groovy': listening to Woodstock 50 years on – all 38 discs”, in The Guardian‎
  Earlier the gentleman from California (Mr. Cardoza) got up on the floor, and he was upset that somebody had said that the underlying bill would eviscerate the Endangered Species Act.
  2005, Congress, Congressional Record, volume 151, part 16, page 21847
3. (transitive) To elicit the essence of.
4. (transitive, surgery) To remove a bodily organ or its contents.
5. (intransitive, of viscera) To protrude through a surgical incision.