[syn: disembowel, eviscerate, draw]
4.  take away a vital or essential part of; 
- Example: "the compromise among the parties eviscerated the bill that had been proposed"
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.  having been disembowelled; 
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Eviscerate \E*vis"cer*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Eviscerated;
   p. pr. & vb. n. Eviscerating.] [L. evisceratus, p. p. of
   eviscerare to eviscerate; e out + viscera the bowels. See
   Viscera.]
   To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; to gut.
   [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
eviscerate
    adj 1: having been disembowelled
    v 1: surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ [syn:
         resect, eviscerate]
    2: remove the contents of; "eviscerate the stomach"
    3: remove the entrails of; "draw a chicken" [syn: disembowel,
       eviscerate, draw]
    4: take away a vital or essential part of; "the compromise among
       the parties eviscerated the bill that had been proposed"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
36 Moby Thesaurus words for "eviscerate":
   abate, attenuate, blunt, bowel, cramp, cripple, damp, dampen,
   deaden, debilitate, devitalize, disembowel, draw, dull, enervate,
   enfeeble, exhaust, extenuate, gruel, gut, lay low, mitigate,
   paunch, rattle, reduce, sap, shake, shake up, soften up, unbrace,
   undermine, unman, unnerve, unstrengthen, unstring, weaken