as in to clean
to take the internal organs out of the ancient Egyptians would eviscerate the bodies of the dead as part of the process of mummifying them

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Recent Examples of eviscerate While the United States eviscerates its innovation system, China is staying the course. David G. Victor, Foreign Affairs, 28 May 2025 Some government functions were eviscerated, such as the U.S. Agency for International Development, which had provided a lifeline for impoverished people around the world. Arkansas Online, 31 May 2025 Scores of existing orders would be unenforceable, such as the national injunction prohibiting Trump from eviscerating the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of birthright citizenship and a temporary restraining order that Harvard just won to protect some 6,800 foreign students. Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 27 May 2025 Just as the economy was recovering the Ebola epidemic struck the country in 2014 that further eviscerated the economic progress that had been made over the past decade. Saleem H. Ali, Forbes.com, 5 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for eviscerate
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  • At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this year, Roborock showed off a vacuum with a robotic arm for automatically removing obstacles while cleaning floors.
    Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 12 June 2025
  • His father rose from dishwasher to short-order cook while his mother cleaned houses.
    Linh Tat, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2025
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  • Backstage at Georgie’s Alibi Monkey Bar, a popular LGBTQ club in Wilton Manors, Jacob Smith carefully removed his gravity-defying, bejeweled blonde wig and light pink costume.
    Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 13 June 2025
  • The reality was never in doubt, though, that very few of the trees removed from Oakmont were organic to the original 1903 course design.
    Brendan Quinn, New York Times, 14 June 2025

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