bowel
[verb]
Synonyms: eviscerate, disembowel, draw, embowel, exenterate, gut, paunch

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

bow‧el /ˈbaʊəl/ noun
[Date: 1200-1300; Language: Old French; Origin: boel, from Medieval Latin botellus, from Latin botulus; ⇒ botulism]

1. bowels [plural] the system of tubes inside your body where food is made into solid waste material and through which it passes out of your body ⇒ intestine
move/empty/open your bowels (=get rid of solid waste from your body)

2. [singular] one part of this system of tubes:
cancer of the bowel

3. a bowel movement formal the act of getting rid of solid waste from your body

4. the bowels of something literary the lowest or deepest part of something
the bowels of the earth (=deep under the ground)

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

bowel
noun
ADJ. large, small
VERB + BOWEL empty, evacuate, move, open
BOWEL + NOUN action, function, habit, movement Patients are asked to report any change in bowel habit. He's been having painful bowel movements.
frequency | wall | cancer, disease, disorder, obstruction, problems, tumour | biopsy, surgery
PREP. in the ~
PHRASES irritable bowel syndrome

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