gutted

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Eviscerated.

   • The exports, on the whole, in 1815, exceeded those of 1816; but the gutted herrings exported in the latter year exceeded those of the former by 12606½ barrels
   • He was leaning forward, head down, taking one deliberate step after another, both arms behind, dragging his gutted buck by its barely forked antlers.
2. 2

   With the most important parts destroyed (often by fire), removed or rendered useless.

   • Viasma on the other hand, presented as dismal a scene as we had any where witnessed. Nearly all the large houses were gutted and burnt.
3. 3

   Having a gut or guts.

   • He could tell she wanted to cry. "We've made a pact that we are going to try to get into men's basketball, and we're not going to do any of this crying stuff," he reminded her, and she gutted it out.
   • "Uh, I'm having a problem " mumbled the soggy-gutted bear as he suddenly found himself wedged between two large Austrian women.
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   1. 4

      Deeply disappointed or crushed, as by defeat, failure, or loss

      Deeply disappointed or crushed, as by defeat, failure, or loss; let down.

      • The whole platoon had felt gutted, an attitude rarely reflected in press reporters.
      • Throughout the book he runs the whole gamut of emotion from ‘chuffed' to ‘gutted', while being on the whole (surprisingly, for a fabulously gifted millionaire) more gutted than chuffed, and he cheerfully confesses to a short temper.
      • 2004, "Bobbins", quoted in Justine Roberts, Mums on Pregnancy: Trade Secrets from the Real Experts The thing I was most gutted about was that I had planned to finish knitting a patchwork cot blanket. It never did get finished.
   2. 5

      simple past and past participle of gut

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