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To eviscerate a person or an animal is to cut the inner organs out of the body — the guts. That is the root sense: hunters, butchers, and grim medical or crime scenes. It is a harsh, clinical, or violent word; you would not drop it lightly at the table. Though actually, speakers stretch it a great deal. To eviscerate an argument, a law, a budget, or a team is to tear out the parts that make it work, so almost nothing useful is left. News and criticism use that figurative sense constantly. Even then the picture underneath is still a body being emptied, which is why the word feels so fierce.
取出內臟；開膛破肚（新聞裡也常比喻「掏空」核心）
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
eviscerateverb/ɪˈvɪsəˌɹeɪt/
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To disembowel; to remove the viscera.
- Desecrate me / Tear me limb from limb / Eviscerate me / Chew me to death
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To destroy or make ineffectual or meaningless.
- Coming on stage at sunrise on the Sunday, Jefferson Airplane greet the new day explaining they’re not a “hippie band” but “manic morning music”, then eviscerate Fred Neil’s Other Side of Life. Somebody to Love is also taken at breakneck speed – this turns out to be an energy tablet before a leaden day.
- Earlier the gentleman from California (Mr. Cardoza) got up on the floor, and he was upset that somebody had said that the underlying bill would eviscerate the Endangered Species Act.
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To elicit the essence of.
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medicinesciencessurgeryTo remove a bodily organ or its contents.
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To protrude through a surgical incision.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。