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say it: uh-VIS-ur-ayt
eviscerate is a verb and adjective meaning "surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ". It carries 5 recorded senses.
take away a vital or essential part of
“the compromise among the parties eviscerated the bill that had been proposed”
having been disembowelled
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for eviscerate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.