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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
evisceration is a noun meaning "surgical removal of an organ (or the contents of an organ) from a patient". It carries 3 recorded senses.
surgical removal of an organ (or the contents of an organ) from a patient
the act of removing the bowels or viscera; the act of cutting so as to cause the viscera to protrude
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”
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 evisceration come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.