DISEMBOWEL

[verb] [T] -ll- or US usually -l- - to remove the stomach and bowels from (a dead animal), or to kill (a person) in this way, sometimes as a punishmentThe animals were disembowelled and the carcasses split down the backbone.The animals had lethal claws - one swipe could disembowel a man, spilling his guts out.He publicly disembowelled himself in 1970 after a failed coup.