gutted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English gutted, gotted, equivalent to gut + -ed.
Base: gut
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
form: more gutted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most gutted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Eviscerated.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 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.
gloss: With the most important parts destroyed (often by fire), removed or rendered useless.
pos: adj
examples: (referring to the practice of newspapers removing all intermediate vowels from the names of people about whom they were making potentially libelous statements, as eg Fl-r-o, compare 1714 cite of past participle, below) For he to keep him from the vapours, /Subscribed at Hookham's, saw the papers; /Was deep in poet's-corner wit; /Knew what was in italics writ; /Explain'd fictitious names at will, /Each gutted syllable cou'd fill; /There oft, in paragraphs, his name /Gave symptom sweet of growing fame.
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.
1841, "An intelligent gentleman of Berwick" quoted in Charles Ellms, The Tragedy of the Seas; Or, Sorrow on the Ocean, Lake, and River, from Shipwreck, Plague, Fire and Famine
We have this day paid a visit to the wreck, which is lying in much the same state that it was, only somewhat more gutted by the occasional dashing of the billows amongst its timber and planks.
In sixteen days no fewer than 99,000 passengers were conveyed to the new [Alexandra] Palace but, on June 9 [1873], this wonderful source of traffic was gutted by fire.
The markets will be more gutted than usual.
The gutted city of Bremen, where nothing remained standing in its central area except a few walls in “crazy patterns”, and “the smell of death” from thousands of people buried in the wreckage “hung heavy in the air”.
2006, John W. Quist, An Occasionally Dry State Surrounded by Water: Temperance and Prohibition in Antebellum Michigan read in Paul Finkelman, Martin Hershock (eds), History of Michigan Law
Recognizing by late April that the new law was gutted beyond repair, the Michigan State Temperance Society urged prohibitionists to interrogate every every political candidate on this issue and to vote only for those who would "publicly pledge" to support "the passage and enforcement of [another] law".
gloss: Having a gut or guts.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: Having spoke thus, she took the ugliest of her monsters, full gutted from her spleen, and flung it invisibly into his mouth, which, flying straight up into his head, squeezed out his eye-balls, gave him a distorted look, and half overturned his brain.
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.
gloss: Deeply disappointed or crushed, as by defeat, failure, or loss; let down.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: 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.
The guard entered the room and before I knew it Sarah had left, I felt gutted and a broken man.
So there I was feeling totally gutted by the whole ghastly business.
He was really gutted by his father's death.
Derived words: gotch-gutted
guttedly
guttedness
herring-gutted
narrow-gutted
pus-gutted
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