evisceration
Nouns
- (n) surgical removal of an organ (or the contents of an organ) from a patient
- (n) the act of removing the bowels or viscera; the act of cutting so as to cause the viscera to protrude disembowelment,
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(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