Definition of "disemboweling"

He recalls that experience in a smooth, speedy story, “The Monster Mash,” but these days he’s not sure he liked it too much — the disembowelings, the coolers of brains, the stench of decomposing corpses (“the smell of job security,” as one pathologist puts it) terrify him.

2008 June 15, Vanessa Grigoriadis, “Up in Smoke”, in New York Times‎