gutting

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Gut \Gut\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gutted; p. pr. & vb. n. Gutting.]

1.To take out the bowels from; to eviscerate. [1913 Webster]

2.To plunder of contents; to destroy or remove the interior or contents of; as, a mob gutted the house. [1913 Webster]

Tom Brown, of facetious memory, having gutted a proper name of its vowels, used it as freely as he pleased.— Addison.[1913 Webster]