Meaning of EVISCERATION

WordNet Dictionary
	Definition:		[n]  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" [n]  the act of removing the bowels or viscera; the act of cutting so as to cause the viscera to protrude [n]  surgical removal of an organ (or the contents of an organ) from a patient
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	Synonyms:		disembowelment
	See Also:		devaluation, operation, remotion, removal, surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
	Definition:		\E*vis`cer*a"tion\, a. A disemboweling.
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Thesaurus Terms
	Related Terms:		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