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Definition of 'bowel'English
Noun
( en-noun)
(chiefly|medicine) A part or division of the intestines, usually the large intestine.
(in the plural) The entrails or intestines; the internal organs of the stomach.
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts I:
- And when he was hanged, brast asondre in the myddes, and all his bowels gusshed out.
(in the plural) The (deep) interior of something.
- The treasures were stored in the bowels of the ship.
* 1592 , , I. i. 129:
- His soldiers cried out amain, / And rushed into the bowels of the battle.
(in the plural|archaic) The seat of pity or the gentler emotions; pity or mercy.
* 1602 , , II. i. 48:
- Thou thing of no bowels , thou!
* Fuller
- Bloody Bonner, that corpulent tyrant, full (as one said) of guts, and empty of bowels .
(obsolete|in plural) offspring
* 1604 , , III. i. 29:
- Friend hast thou none, / For thine own bowels , which do call thee sire,
Derived terms
( der-top)
* bowel cancer
* bowel movement
* bowel obstruction
* bowelless
* disbowel
( der-mid)
* disembowel
* embowel
* irritable bowel syndrome
* large bowel
* unbowel
( der-bottom)
Verb
( bowell)
To disembowel.
* 1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, page 149:
- Their bodies are first bowelled , then dried upon hurdles till they be very dry [...].
See also
* large bowel
* small bowel
* small intestine
* colon
* laxative
* tharm
Anagrams
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Similar to 'bowel'bull, bell, ball, bill, bowl, boil, bail, bewail, boll, biol, bawl, buhl, bool, beal, behell, behowl, boul, bael, bewill, bewell
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