Eviscerate \E*vis"cer*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Eviscerated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Eviscerating}.] [L. evisceratus, p. p. of eviscerare to eviscerate; e out + viscera the bowels. See {Viscera}.] To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; to gut.
But since when does that include the right to eviscerate the president's veto power or his power to implement treaties by holding every spending bill hostage to some senator's policy preference?
The Mideast situation bashed growth stocks badly because of general uncertainty and specific concern about the economy going into recession, which would eviscerate already-lean corporate profits.
He said the plan would eviscerate domestic programs that "already have been cut to the bone." Rangel said House Democratic leaders would instead seek to find savings in other areas _ likely to be defense programs.
Nunn said the GAO finding "will essentially eviscerate the Navy's conclusion" that the explosion aboard the USS Iowa was the result of a wrongful, intentional act.
This would be a milestone on the path of economic rebirth, but it would complicate and perhaps eviscerate Poland's and Hungary's trade relations within the Eastern Bloc.