To remove the entrails or internal organs from something; to disembowel.
From dis- + entrail (from en- + traille, from Old French 'dragging' or 'intestines'). A brutal medical or hunting term.
This medieval hunting and butchery term appears in older English texts where it describes the necessary process of field-dressing game—a harsh word for a necessary reality.
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