Word Meanings - EMBOWEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To disembowel. The barbarous practice of emboweling. Hallam. The boar . . . makes his trough In your emboweled bosoms. Shak. Note: Disembowel is the preferable word in this sense. 2. To imbed; to hide in the inward parts; to bury.

Additional info about word: EMBOWEL

1. To disembowel. The barbarous practice of emboweling. Hallam. The boar . . . makes his trough In your emboweled bosoms. Shak. Note: Disembowel is the preferable word in this sense. 2. To imbed; to hide in the inward parts; to bury. Or deep emboweled in the earth entire. Spenser.

Related words: (words related to EMBOWEL)

• BARBAROUS
  slavish, rude, ignorant; akin to L. balbus stammering, Skr. barbara 1. Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country. 2. Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste. Barbarous
• SENSE
  A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing,
• IMBARGO
  See EMBARGO
• IMBITTER
  To make bitter; hence, to make distressing or more distressing; to make sad, morose, sour, or malignant. Is there anything that more imbitters the enjoyment of this life than shame South. Imbittered against each other by former contests. Bancroft.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• IMBIBITION
  The act or process of imbibing, or absorbing; as, the post- mortem imbibition of poisons. Bacon.
• IMBOSK
  To conceal, as in bushes; to hide. Shelton.
• IMBRICATE
  To lay in order, one lapping over another, so as to form an imbricated surface.
• INWARD; INWARDS
  1. Toward the inside; toward the center or interior; as, to bend a thing inward. 2. Into, or toward, the mind or thoughts; inwardly; as, to turn the attention inward. So much the rather, thou Celestial Light, Shine inward. Milton.
• IMBECILE
  Destitute of strength, whether of body or mind; feeble; impotent; esp., mentally wea; feeble-minded; as, hospitals for the imbecile and insane. Syn. -- Weak; feeble; feeble-minded; idiotic.
• IMBECILITY
  The quality of being imbecile; weakness; feebleness, esp. of mind. Cruelty . . . argues not only a depravedness of nature, but also a meanness of courage and imbecility of mind. Sir W. Temple. Note: This term is used specifically to denote natural
• IMBURSEMENT
  1. The act of imbursing, or the state of being imbursed. 2. Money laid up in stock.
• PRACTICER
  1. One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts. South. 2. One who exercises a profession; a practitioner. 3. One who uses art or stratagem. B. Jonson.
• IMBITTERMENT
  The act of imbittering; bitter feeling; embitterment.
• IMBRUEMENT
  The act of imbruing or state of being imbrued.
• IMBIBE
  1. To drink in; to absorb; to suck or take in; to receive as by drinking; as, a person imbibes drink, or a sponge imbibes moisture. 2. To receive or absorb into the mind and retain; as, to imbibe principles; to imbibe errors. 3. To saturate; to
• IMBOIL
  See EMBOIL
• IMBRUTE
  To degrade to the state of a brute; to make brutal. And mixed with bestial slime, This essence to incarnate and imbrute. Milton. (more info) Etym:
• IMBROCATA; IMBROCCATA
  A hit or thrust. B. Jonson.
• IMBOSOM
  1. To hold in the bosom; to cherish in the heart or affection; to embosom. 2. To inclose or place in the midst of; to surround or shelter; as, a house imbosomed in a grove. "Villages imbosomed soft in trees." Thomson. The Father infinite, By whom
• INSENSE
  To make to understand; to instruct. Halliwell.
• TIMBREL
  A kind of drum, tabor, or tabret, in use from the highest antiquity. Miriam . . . took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. Ex. xv. 20. (more info) typmanum, Gr. tabl a drum; cf. Per. tambal
• CIMBAL
  A kind of confectionery or cake. Nares.
• REIMBURSEMENT
  The act reimbursing. A. Hamilton.
• CLIMB
  To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrills, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface. (more info) 1. To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet. 2. To ascend as if with
• LIMBLESS
  Destitute of limbs.
• AKIMBO
  With a crook or bend; with the hand on the hip and elbow turned outward. "With one arm akimbo." Irving.
• NIMBLY
  In a nimble manner; with agility; with light, quick motion.
• NIMBOSE
  Cloudy; stormy; tempestuous.
• THIMBLE
  Any thimble-shaped appendage or fixure. Specifically: -- A tubular piece, generally a strut, through which a bolt or pin passes. A fixed or movable ring, tube, or lining placed in a hole. A tubular cone for expanding a flue; -- called ferrule in