verb

eviscerate

ih-VIS-uh-rayt/ɪˈvɪsəreɪt/

To remove the internal organs of a body.

The gloved fishmonger eviscerates a fish on the kitchen board.

Professional fishmonger wearing gloves removes entrails from a fish on a kitchen board, calm culinary preparation, no blood, no graphic gore, clear action.

Etymology

eLatinout

+viscerLatininternal organ

+ateLatinpast-participle ending

The pieces express taking the internal organs out: the Latin verb already meant to disembowel. The selected English sense preserves that concrete bodily action.

In context

FarmBuilder3:00

I'm gonna go around to the back and this is where we're gonna make our cut to eviscerate the rest of the guts

Chicken Evisceration Tutorial (30 second method) #chicken #butchering #pasturedpoultry

More examples

Hunters eviscerate deer soon after the kill.
The chickens are eviscerated before they are packaged.
She carefully cleans the tools after eviscerating the fish.

Forms

eviscerate · eviscerates · eviscerated · eviscerating

evisceration noun — The removal of a body's internal organs.

Similar words

gut: A more everyday term, especially for preparing fish.
disembowel: Often describes violent removal of organs from the abdomen.