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Definition

internal organs — especially the intestines

or 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

entrails = internal organs

With fingers that shook, I worked the entrails back into the wound.
Wilson Rawls -- Where the Red Fern Grows

entrails = intestines

After hanging him they had gashed out his entrails.
Ernest J. Gaines -- The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

entrails = internal organs — especially the intestines

Sometimes, when I clean a kill, I feed Buttercup the entrails.
Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games

entrails = internal organs

entrails = internal organs

entrails = internal organs

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

entrails = internal organs

entrails = internal organs

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

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