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DISEMBOWEL
Definition of DISEMBOWEL
verb
To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
DISEMBOWEL carries 4 further meanings.
transitive verb
To remove the entrails from.
transitive verb
To deprive of meaning or substance.
To deprive of the bowels, or of parts analogous to the bowels; eviscerate: as, to disembowel a carcass; to disembowel a book by tearing out leaves.
To wound in the abdomen in such a manner as to permit the bowels to protrude or escape, as in suicide by hara-kiri.
Where it comes from
From dis- + embowel.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, DISEMBOWEL · 2 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
DISEMBOWEL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 31 boards so far. 100 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 6, 27 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 6, 27 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
DISEMBOWEL starts with D and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read BDEEILMOSW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of DISEMBOWEL. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Words that start DISEMB
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 6
Could you have found DISEMBOWEL?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 6 - and most players walked straight past it.
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