evisceration

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun surgical removal of an organ (or the contents of an organ) from a patient
noun the act of removing the bowels or viscera; the act of cutting so as to cause the viscera to protrude
noun altering something (as a legislative act or a statement) in such a manner as to reduce its value

What a tremendous work of evisceration this must have been is attested by the fact that where Krakatoa island, girt with luxuriant forests, once towered from three hundred to fourteen hundred feet above the sunlit waters, it is now, in some places, more than a thousand feet below them. — Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror, Trumbull White

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