To disembowel; to remove the viscera.
Desecrate me / Tear me limb from limb / Eviscerate me / Chew me to death
To destroy or make ineffectual or meaningless.
Coming on stage at sunrise on the Sunday, Jefferson Airplane greet the new day explaining they’re not a “hippie band” but “manic morning music”, then eviscerate Fred Neil’s Other Side of Life. Somebody to Love is also taken at breakneck speed – this turns out to be an energy tablet before a leaden day.
To elicit the essence of.
From Latin ēviscerātus, past participle of ēviscerāre (“to disembowel”), from e- (“out”) + viscera (“bowels”).
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