visceralin a sentencegrouped by contextual meaning
visceral as in: a visceral reaction
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I had a visceral reaction when I saw the gruesome video.
visceral = strong (felt in the gut)
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His stories are vivid and visceral.visceral = felt strongly (creating a gut-reaction)
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Simulations aren't real; they pose no real threat to me, so logically, I shouldn't be afraid of them, but my reaction is visceral. (source)visceral = arising from instinct (felt in the gut)
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My opposition was beyond rational, it was visceral. (source)
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They are visceral revelations about her pre-life.† (source)
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Uncle Jimmy reacts viscerally to the idea that any of the blame for Mom's choices can be laid at Papaw's feet.† (source)
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The idea of something for nothing is appealing in some visceral way.† (source)
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You hear stories about ancillaries, and it seems like the most awful thing, the most viscerally appalling thing the Radchaai have done.† (source)
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The cold water, hitting my sore throat, threw me into goosebumps and into a visceral bodily memory from boyhood: painful desert sunlight, painful afternoon hangover, teeth chattering in the air-conditioned chill.† (source)
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She told us she could see the great respect between us, and she was often viscerally moved by our commitment to getting our final time together right.† (source)
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Every time I could not actually see one or the other of them, I had a visceral conviction that they were together.† (source)
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The sight of it printed in capital letters on the crinkly page upsets him viscerally.† (source)
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But sometimes the memories feel so real, so visceral, so personal, that I confuse them with my own.† (source)
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Because of this, there had been a point where she had viscerally hated Josie in a way that even Peter never seemed to, for being cruel enough to leave her son behind.† (source)
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visceral as in: visceral muscles
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A sedentary life has lead to excessive visceral fat.
visceral = around the internal organs
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visceral bleeding†
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Shapes of dried blood in the stubble grass and gray coils of viscera where the slain had been field-dressed and hauled away. (source)viscera = internal organs
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Now the objects in the sky no longer reminded people of building blocks, but of a giant's dismembered limbs and disemboweled viscera.† (source)
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It started pulling out coils of intestines and other viscera.† (source)viscera = internal organs
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It tried to twist away from the agony, a shower of blood and viscera poured down over Tyrion's face, and the horse fell like an avalanche.† (source)
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So skillful was she that it seemed Nacha herself was in Tita's body doing all those things: dry-plucking the birds, removing the viscera, getting them ready for frying.† (source)
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On a once living person, rather, for when the blood stopped flying and the body ceased spasming, Sira's limbs relaxed in death, legs opening again in an echo of the obscene display of viscera above.† (source)
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Low, throaty female laughter, the kind that seems to vibrate in a fairy ring around the viscera and the genitals.† (source)
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Seven men in the platoon had died on that occasion, and Kent had lowered himself into a foxhole and watched a Private Wiesner toss a grenade unsuccessfully toward a pillbox while at the same moment a stream of machine-gun fire caught Wiesner at the waist and forced his viscera out.† (source)
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They paid cash, no questions asked, and preserved particularly interesting bits of diseased viscera in large clear bottles.† (source)
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She stayed until Dr. Cuevas rinsed his hands in the sink and dried his tears, while the other one cleaned up the blood and the viscera.† (source)
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With practiced movements, he drew his old hunting knife, skinned and gutted the rabbits, and then-putting aside the hearts, lungs, kidneys, and livers-buried the viscera so that the scent would not attract scavengers.† (source)
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This is not always advantageous, as the extremities can stand a more drastic temperature loss than the viscera can.† (source)
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