eviscerate

 
Pronunciation: /ɪˈvɪsəreɪt/

verb

[with object] formal
  • disembowel (a person or animal): the goat had been skinned and neatly eviscerated
  • deprive (something) of its essential content: myriad little concessions that would eviscerate the project
  • Surgery remove the contents of (the eyeball).

Derivatives

evisceration

Pronunciation: /-ˈreɪʃ(ə)n/
noun

Origin:

late 16th century: from Latin eviscerat- 'disembowelled', from the verb eviscerare, from e- (variant of ex-) 'out' + viscera 'internal organs'