Eviscerate (verb)
ev-is-er-ayt
Disembowel (a person or animal)
Deprive (something) of its essential content.
Late 16th century: from Latin eviscerat- ‘disembowelled’, from the verb eviscerare, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out’ + viscera ‘internal organs’.
Example sentences
“The Romans eviscerated them in battle.”
“The problem is, these myriad concessions risk eviscerating the whole project.”
Medley (noun) med-lee a mixture, especially of heterogeneous elements; hodgepodge; jumble. First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English noun and adjective medle(e), medlei(e), maedlai(e) “battle, war, quarrel; mixture, balanced mixture,” from…
