I. transitive verb
Etymology: gut (II) + out
: to remove in the process of gutting
the forests were gutted out and mined in the same fashion as the minerals — Lewis Mumford
II. verb
Etymology: probably alteration (influenced by gut (I) out ) of gutter out
transitive verb
: to snuff out
burned so feebly and was so quickly gutted out — Van Wyck Brooks
intransitive verb
: to gutter and go out