eviscerate

t. [Lat. evisceratus, pa. par. of eviscero: e=out, away, and viscera =the bowels.] 1. Lit.: To disembowel; to take or draw out the entrails of. "He will eviscerate himself like a spider."- Burton : Anat . of Melancholy , p. 125. *2. Fig.: To draw out of; to clear, to free. "The philosophers who quietly eviscerate the problem of its difficulty."- Sir W. Hamilton.