BOWEL


Meaning of BOWEL in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ baʊəl ]

( bowels)

1.

Your bowels are the tubes in your body through which digested food passes from your stomach to your anus.

N-COUNT

2.

You can refer in a polite way to someone getting rid of the waste from their body by saying that they move, open, or empty their bowels .

N-PLURAL

3.

You can refer to the parts deep inside something such as the earth, a building, or a machine as the bowels of that thing. ( HUMOROUS or LITERARY )

...deep in the bowels of the earth...

Lyn went off into the dark bowels of the building.

= recesses

N-PLURAL : the N of n

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