evisceration

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

evisceration (countable and uncountable, plural eviscerations)

1. A disemboweling; the removal of viscera.

   The evisceration of the animal was accomplished with a single blow of the knife.

2. (figurative, by extension) A vigorous verbal or physical assault.

   The critic delivered another evisceration of the latest movie.

   • 2018 September 7, Tom English, “Scotland 0-4 Belgium”, in BBC Sport‎:

     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.

• exenteration

• abdominal evisceration

• convarieties