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evisceration

noun

  1. remove the viscera (innards)
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Wiktionary

noun

  1. A disemboweling; the removal of viscera.

    The evisceration of the animal was accomplished with a single blow of the knife.

  2. A vigorous verbal or physical assault.

    The critic delivered another evisceration of the latest movie.

    If you were a Belgian, it was pretty and what you would have expected from your boys. If you were a Scot it was painful, an evisceration of McLeish's notion that his team were good enough to go "toe-to-toe" with the third best team in the world. Delusional.