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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (3)

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;
- 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