| Bowel 1. (n.) One of the intestines of an animal; an entrail, especially of man; a gut; -- generally used in the plural. 2. (n.) Hence, figuratively: The interior part of anything; as, the bowels of the earth. 3. (n.) The seat of pity or kindness. Hence: Tenderness; compassion. 4. (n.) Offspring. 5. (v. t.) To take out the bowels of; to eviscerate; to disembowel. Thesaurus Entries 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 |