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Definition
internal organs — especially the intestinesor more rarely:
the internal parts of anything
- The mummification process included removal of the heart and entrails immediately upon death.
entrails = internal organs — especially the intestines
- The oracles read the entrails to foretell the future.
- At that time sterilized cow entrails were used to string tennis rackets.
- But Amasa did not notice the sword in Joab's hand; Joab struck him in the belly so that his entrails poured out on the ground, and he died.2 Samuel 20.10 (NRSV)
- Plucking the entrails of an offering forth,Shakespeare -- Julius Caesar
- There was another spasm in his entrails, the heavy boots were approaching.George Orwell -- 1984
- With fingers that shook, I worked the entrails back into the wound.Wilson Rawls -- Where the Red Fern Grows
- After hanging him they had gashed out his entrails.Ernest J. Gaines -- The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
- Sometimes, when I clean a kill, I feed Buttercup the entrails.Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games
- Winston's entrails contracted.George Orwell -- 1984
- Winston's entrails seemed to have turned into ice.George Orwell -- 1984
- For a moment it felt as though his entrails were being ground to pulp between the two muscular hips, then he had broken through, sweating a little.George Orwell -- 1984
- Winston's entrails seemed to grow cold.George Orwell -- 1984
- But if I can hold down Greasy Sae's concoction of mice meat, pig entrails, and tree bark — a winter specialty — I'm determined to hang on to this.Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games
- [Buttercup] has stopped hissing at me. Entrails. No hissing. This is the closest we will ever come to love.Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games
- On a rock jutting from the edge of the water, a bird tears at the entrails of a dead fish.Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed
- It tried to dance, but its entrails dragged about its legs, and the bear came and wept for the deer.Hal Borland -- When the Legends Die
- It was easy to read the message in his entrails.Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
- Old, cold, withered, and of intolerable entrails?William Shakespeare -- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- They had to listen to him dying for six hours, with his entrails torn with slugs.Joseph Conrad -- Lord Jim
entrails = internal organs
entrails = intestines
entrails = internal organs — especially the intestines
entrails = internal organs
entrails = internal organs
entrails = internal organs
entrails = internal organs
entrails = internal organs
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