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Meaning of EMBOWEL

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Em*bow"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Emboweled}or
{Embowelled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Emboweling} or {Embowelling}.]
1. To disembowel.
         The barbarous practice of emboweling. --Hallam.
         The boar . . . makes his trough In your emboweled
         bosoms.                               --Shak.
Note: Disembowel is the preferable word in this sense.
2. To imbed; to hide in the inward parts; to bury.
         Or deep emboweled in the earth entire. --Spenser.
 
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