Dictionary entry

Embowel

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Em‐bow″el (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Emboweled (?) or Embowelled; p. pr. & vb. n.Emboweling or Embowelling.] 1. To disembowel.

The barbarous practice of emboweling. Hallam.

The boar... makes his trough

In your emboweled bosoms. Shak.

Disembowel is the preferable word in this sense.

2. To imbed; to hide in the inward parts; to bury.

Or deep emboweled in the earth entire. Spenser.