evisceration
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
surgical removal of an organ (or the contents of an organ) from a patient
Types & categories
- surgical operation hypernym
Sense 2 noun
the act of removing the bowels or viscera; the act of cutting so as to cause the viscera to protrude
Types & categories
- removal hypernym
Related & opposite
- disembowel derivation
Sense 3 noun
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
Types & categories
- devaluation hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | surgical operation |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | disembowel |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | removal |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | devaluation |