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evisceration
noun 2
Collocations
3ADJ.
animal, latest, painful
VERB + EVISCERATION
delivered
EVISCERATION + NOUN
mcleish's, notion
Definitions
noun
1
A disemboweling; the removal of viscera.
The evisceration of the animal was accomplished with a single blow of the knife.
2
A vigorous verbal or physical assault.
The critic delivered another evisceration of the latest movie.
If you were a Belgian, it was pretty and what you would have expected from your boys. If you were a Scot it was painful, an evisceration of McLeish's notion that his team were good enough to go "toe-to-toe" with the third best team in the world. Delusional.
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Synonyms
noun — the act of removing the bowels or viscera
- disembowelment
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Idioms & Phrases
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The evisceration of the animal was accomplished with a single blow of the knife.
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The critic delivered another evisceration of the latest movie.
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If you were a Belgian, it was pretty and what you would have expected from your boys. If you were a Scot it was painful, an evisceration of McLeish's notion that his team were good enough to go "toe-t
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