Meaning & use
Eviscerated
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Had its internal organs removed; figuratively, stripped of its essential or vital parts, weakening it severely.
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The new budget eviscerated funding for public libraries.
The fish was cleaned and eviscerated before being cooked.
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The figurative sense, as in "the policy was eviscerated by amendments," is extremely common in political and journalistic writing.
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2. verb
Literally, to remove the internal organs of an animal.
The hunter eviscerated the deer before carrying it back to camp.
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