Definition of "evisceration"

evisceration

noun
countable and uncountable, plural eviscerations
1. A disemboweling; the removal of viscera.
2. (figurative, by extension) A vigorous verbal or physical assault.
  Quotations
  If you were a Belgian, it was pretty and what you would have expected from your boys. If you were a Scot it was painful, an evisceration of McLeish's notion that his team were good enough to go "toe-to-toe" with the third best team in the world. Delusional.
  2018 September 7, Tom English, “Scotland 0-4 Belgium”, in BBC Sport‎