eventerate

English

Etymology

From Latin ē(x) (“out”) +‎ Latin venter (“belly”) +‎ -ate (verb-forming suffix). Compare French éventrer.

Verb

eventerate (third-person singular simple present eventerates, present participle eventerating, simple past and past participle eventerated)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To rip open; to disembowel.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “eventerate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)