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Antonyms for gutting

Grammar : Verb
Spell : guht
Phonetic Transcription : gʌt


Definition of gutting

Origin :
  • Old English guttas (plural) "bowels, entrails," related to geotan "to pour," from PIE *gheu- "pour" (see found (v.2)). Related to Middle Dutch gote, Dutch goot, German Gosse "gutter, drain," Middle English gote "channel, stream." Meaning "abdomen, belly" is from c.1400. Meaning "easy college course" is student slang from 1916, probably from obsolete slang sense of "feast" (the connecting notion is "something that one can eat up"). Sense of "inside contents of anything" (usually plural) is from 1570s. To hate (someone's) guts is first attested 1918. The notion of the intestines as a seat of emotions is ancient (cf. bowel) and probably explains expressions such as gut reaction (1963), gut feeling (by 1970), and cf. guts. Gut check attested by 1976.
  • verb clean out, strip
Example sentences :
  • He approached a woman who was gutting fish, and asked her to prepare one for him.
  • Extract from : « The Romance of Names » by Ernest Weekley
  • Gutting a long straw, I extended the point towards the tail, and then traced a line across the leg to the belly.
  • Extract from : « My Kalulu, Prince, King and Slave » by Henry M. Stanley
  • The great fire at the docks, after gutting several warehouses, was finally subdued.
  • Extract from : « Life in the Red Brigade » by R.M. Ballantyne
  • All the processes of gutting, curing, and kippering go on in grand style.
  • Extract from : « Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland » by Daniel Turner Holmes
  • Then came the sense of the terrific blow caving in his ribs, gutting its way throughout his inside.
  • Extract from : « Mountain » by Clement Wood
  • And all this bald chat about sacking towns and gutting convents?
  • Extract from : « The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3 » by George Augustus Sala
  • As a matter of fact, the gutting must have destroyed everything, but I did not mean to take any risks.
  • Extract from : « A Floating Home » by Cyril Ionides
  • The gutting of this Hill cost the city the fortunes of several contractors, and it ruined the Hill forever.
  • Extract from : « In the Footprints of the Padres » by Charles Warren Stoddard
  • And as for your filthy green-weed soup, how should a Mulla-mulgar soil his thumbs with gutting fish?
  • Extract from : « The Three Mulla-mulgars » by Walter De La Mare
  • After gutting and cleaning, boil them gently, and serve with butter and fennel, or gooseberry sauce.
  • Extract from : « The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, » by Mary Eaton

Synonyms for gutting

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