eviscerate

eviscerate
    adj 1: having been disembowelled
    v 1: surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ [syn:
         {resect}, {eviscerate}]
    2: remove the contents of; "eviscerate the stomach"
    3: remove the entrails of; "draw a chicken" [syn: {disembowel},
       {eviscerate}, {draw}]
    4: take away a vital or essential part of; "the compromise among
       the parties eviscerated the bill that had been proposed"
    

Eviscerate \E*vis"cer*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Eviscerated};
   p. pr. & vb. n. {Eviscerating}.] [L. evisceratus, p. p. of
   eviscerare to eviscerate; e out + viscera the bowels. See
   {Viscera}.]
   To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; to gut.
   [1913 Webster]
    

36 Moby Thesaurus words for "eviscerate":
      abate, attenuate, blunt, bowel, cramp, cripple, damp, dampen,
      deaden, debilitate, devitalize, disembowel, draw, dull, enervate,
      enfeeble, exhaust, extenuate, gruel, gut, lay low, mitigate,
      paunch, rattle, reduce, sap, shake, shake up, soften up, unbrace,
      undermine, unman, unnerve, unstrengthen, unstring, weaken