evisceration

Plural: eviscerations

Noun

• surgical removal of an organ (or the contents of an organ) from a patient
• the act of removing the bowels or viscera; the act of cutting so as to cause the viscera to protrude
• altering something (as a legislative act or a statement) in such a manner as to reduce its value
  • "the adoption of their amendments would have amounted to an evisceration of the act"
• A disemboweling; the removal of viscera.
• A vigorous verbal or physical assault.

Examples

• The critic delivered another evisceration of the latest movie.
• The evisceration of the animal was accomplished with a single blow of the knife.

Synonyms

disembowelment, exenteration