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2.
[syn: disembowelment, evisceration]
3. altering something (as a legislative act or a statement) in such a manner as to reduce its value;
- Example: "the adoption of their amendments would have amounted to an evisceration of the act"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Evisceration \E*vis`cer*a"tion\, a.
A disemboweling.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
evisceration
n 1: surgical removal of an organ (or the contents of an organ)
from a patient
2: the act of removing the bowels or viscera; the act of cutting
so as to cause the viscera to protrude [syn:
disembowelment, evisceration]
3: altering something (as a legislative act or a statement) in
such a manner as to reduce its value; "the adoption of their
amendments would have amounted to an evisceration of the act"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
27 Moby Thesaurus words for "evisceration":
abatement, attenuation, attrition, blunting, damping, deadening,
debilitation, devitalization, dilution, disembowelment, dulling,
effemination, enervation, enfeeblement, exhaustion, extenuation,
fatigue, gutting, inanition, languishment, mitigation, reduction,
relaxation, slackening, softening, thinning, weakening