Meaning

2 senses

  1. (archaic)To remove the bowels; disembowel.

  2. (obsolete)To enclose or bury.

Origin

From em- + bowel.

From em- + bowel.

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

embowels, emboweling, emboweled, emboweled
Base formembowel · to embowel
3rd person singularembowels
Present participleemboweling
Past simpleemboweled / embowelled
Past participleemboweled / embowelled

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyembowel
he, she, itembowels

Past simpleLesson

all personsemboweled

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave emboweled
he, she, ithas emboweled

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill embowel

Synonyms

6 synonyms
enclose:encloseB1buryA2embedC2inclose
remove the bowels:disemboweleviscerate

Word family

1 related words
Derivedenvowel

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
embodimentC2embodyC2emboldenembolismembraceB2embroiderembroidery
embowel — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto