gut

• POS: Noun, Verb (transitive)

CIDE DICTIONARY

gut, n. [OE. gut, got, AS. gut, prob. orig., a channel, and akin to geótan to pour. See FOUND to cast.].

•  A narrow passage of water; as, the Gut of Canso.  [1913 Webster]
•  An intenstine; a bowel; the whole alimentary canal; the enteron; (pl.) bowels; entrails.  [1913 Webster]
•  One of the prepared entrails of an animal, esp. of a sheep, used for various purposes. See Catgut.  [1913 Webster]
•  The sac of silk taken from a silkworm (when ready to spin its cocoon), for the purpose of drawing it out into a thread. This, when dry, is exceedingly strong, and is used as the snood of a fish line.  [1913 Webster]

Blind gut. See CÆcum, n. (b).

gut, v. t. 

•  To take out the bowels from; to eviscerate.  [1913 Webster]
•  To plunder of contents; to destroy or remove the interior or contents of; as, a mob gutted the house.  [1913 Webster]

  "Tom Brown, of facetious memory, having gutted a proper
  name of its vowels, used it as freely as he pleased."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

gut, n. & v.
--n.
1 the lower alimentary canal or a part of this; the intestine.
2 (in pl.) the bowel or entrails, esp. of animals.
3 (in pl.) colloq. personal courage and determination; vigorous application and perseverance.
4 (in pl.) colloq. the belly as the source of appetite.
5 (in pl.) a the contents of anything, esp. representing substantiality. b the essence of a thing, e.g. of an issue or problem.
6 a material for violin or racket strings or surgical use made from the intestines of animals. b material for fishing-lines made from the silk-glands of silkworms.
7 a a narrow water-passage; a sound, straits. b a defile or narrow passage.
8 (attrib.) a instinctive (a gut reaction). b fundamental (a gut issue).
--v.tr. (gutted, gutting)
1 remove or destroy (esp. by fire) the internal fittings of (a house etc.).
2 take out the guts of (a fish).
3 extract the essence of (a book etc.).

Idiom

gut-rot colloq.
1 = rot-gut.
2 a stomach upset. hate a person's guts colloq. dislike a person intensely. sweat (or work) one's guts out colloq. work extremely hard.

Etymology

OE guttas (pl.), prob. rel. to geotan pour

THESAURUS

gut

ab ovo, abdomen, abomasum, affectional, affective, arm, armlet, audacity, automatic, backbone, balls, basal, basic, bay, bay window, bayou, beerbelly, belly, belt, bight, boca, boldness, bottle, bowel, bowels, bravery, breadbasket, bring to ruin, casual, clean, clean out, condemn, confound, constituent, constitutive, consume, corporation, courage, cove, craw, creek, crop, damn, daring, dauntlessness, deal destruction, decimate, deep-seated, demonstrative, depredate, desolate, despoil, destroy, determination, devastate, devour, diaphragm, disembowel, dissolve, draw, dress, dynamism, elemental, elementary, embonpoint, emotiometabolic, emotiomotor, emotional, emotiovascular, emotive, empty, endurance, engorge, entrails, essential, estuary, euripus, eviscerate, feeling, first stomach, fjord, fleece, forage, foray, forcefulness, freeboot, frith, fundamental, gizzard, glandular, gobble, gobble up, grit, gulf, gullet, gumption, gut with fire, guts, gutsiness, harbor, havoc, heart, heartfelt, honeycomb stomach, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-devised, inadvertent, incinerate, indeliberate, inlet, innards, insides, instinctive, instinctual, integrity, interior, internal, internals, intestinal fortitude, intestines, intimate, intuitive, involuntary, inwards, kishkes, kyle, lay in ruins, lay waste, loch, loot, manyplies, maraud, material, maw, mettle, midriff, mouth, moxie, narrow, narrow seas, narrows, natural harbor, nerve, of soul, of the essence, offal, omasum, original, overdemonstrative, paunch, pillage, pluck, plunder, pot, potbelly, potgut, prey on, primal, primary, primitive, psalterium, pusgut, radical, raid, ransack, ravage, raven, ravish, reach, reflex, reflexive, reive, rennet bag, resolution, reticulum, rifle, road, roads, roadstead, ruin, ruinate, rumen, sack, sand, second stomach, shipwreck, snap, soulful, sound, spare tire, spirit, spoil, spoliate, spontaneous, spunk, stamina, stomach, strait, straits, strip, stuffing, substantial, substantive, swagbelly, swallow up, sweep, third stomach, throw into disorder, tripes, tum-tum, tummy, unadvised, uncalculated, unconscious, unconsidered, undeliberate, undeliberated, underbelly, underlying, undesigned, unintended, unintentional, unleash destruction, unleash the hurricane, unmeditated, unpremeditated, unstudied, unwilled, upheave, vandalize, vaporize, venter, ventripotence, viscera, visceral, vitals, waste, wrack, wreak havoc, wreck

ROGET THESAURUS

gut

Taking

VB take, catch, hook, nab, bag, sack, pocket, put into one's pocket, receive, accept, reap, crop, cull, pluck, gather, draw, appropriate, expropriate, impropriate, assume, possess oneself of, take possession of, commandeer, lay one's hands on, clap one's hands on, help oneself to, make free with, dip one's hands into, lay under contribution, intercept, scramble for, deprive of, take away, carry away, bear away, take off, carry off, bear off, adeem, abstract, hurry off with, run away with, abduct, steal, ravish, seize, pounce upon, spring upon, swoop to, swoop down upon, take by storm, take by assault, snatch, reave, snap up, nip up, whip up, catch up, kidnap, crimp, capture, lay violent hands on, get hold of, lay hold of, take hold of, catch hold of, lay fast hold of, take firm hold of, lay by the heels, take prisoner, fasten upon, grip, grapple, embrace, gripe, clasp, grab, clutch, collar, throttle, take by the throat, claw, clinch, clench, make sure of, catch at, jump at, make a grab at, snap at, snatch at, reach, make a long arm, stretch forth one's hand, take from, take away from, disseize, deduct, retrench, dispossess, ease one of, snatch from one's grasp, tear from, tear away from, wrench from, wrest from, wring from, extort, deprive of, bereave, disinherit, cut off with a shilling, oust, divest, levy, distrain, confiscate, sequester, sequestrate, accroach, usurp, despoil, strip, fleece, shear, displume, impoverish, eat out of house and home, drain, drain to the dregs, gut, dry, exhaust, swallow up, absorb, draw off, suck the blood of, suck like a leech, retake, resume, recover.

Stealing

VB steal, thieve, rob, mug, purloin, pilfer, filch, prig, bag, nim, crib, cabbage, palm, abstract, appropriate, plagiarize, convey away, carry off, abduct, kidnap, crimp, make off with, walk off with, run off with, run away with, spirit away, seize, plunder, pillage, rifle, sack, loot, ransack, spoil, spoliate, despoil, strip, sweep, gut, forage, levy blackmail, pirate, pickeer, maraud, lift cattle, poach, smuggle, run, badger, bail up, hold up, stick up, bunco, bunko, filibuster, swindle, peculate, embezzle, sponge, mulct, rook, bilk, pluck, pigeon, fleece, defraud, obtain under false pretenses, live by one's wits, rob Peter to pay Paul, borrow of Peter to pay Paul, set a thief to catch a thief, disregard the distinction between meum and tuum, fence, launder, launder money.

Interiority

N interiority, inside, interior, interspace, subsoil, substratum, intrados, contents, substance, pith, marrow, backbone, heart, bosom, breast, abdomen, vitals, viscera, entrails, bowels, belly, intestines, guts, chitterings, womb, lap, penetralia, recesses, innermost recesses, cave, interior, internal, inner, inside, inward, intraregarding, inmost, innermost, deep seated, gut, intestine, intestinal, inland, subcutaneous, abdominal, coeliac, endomorphic, interstitial, inwrought, inclosed, home, domestic, indoor, intramural, vernacular, endemic, internally, inwards, within, in, inly, here in, there in, where in, ab intra, withinside, in doors, within doors, at home, in the bosom of one's family.

Convexity

N convexity, prominence, projection, swelling, gibbosity, bilge, bulge, protuberance, protrusion, camber, cahot, thank-ye-ma'am, swell, intumescence, tumour, tumor, tubercle, tuberosity, excrescence, hump, hunch, bunch, boss, embossment, hub, hubble, tooth, knob, elbow, process, apophysis, condyle, bulb, node, nodule, nodosity, tongue, dorsum, bump, clump, sugar loaf, bow, mamelon, molar, belly, corporation, pot belly, gut, withers, back, shoulder, lip, flange, pimple, zit, wen, wheel, papula, pustule, pock, proud flesh, growth, sarcoma, caruncle, corn, wart, pappiloma, furuncle, polypus, fungus, fungosity, exostosis, bleb, blister, blain, boil, airbubble, blob, papule, verruca, papilla, nipple, teat, tit, titty, boob, knocker, pap, breast, dug, mammilla, proboscis, nose, neb, beak, snout, nozzle, schnoz, peg, button, stud, ridge, rib, jutty, trunnion, snag, cupola, dome, arch, balcony, eaves, pilaster, relief, relievo, cameo, bassorilievo, mezzorilevo, altorivievo, low relief, bas relief, high relief, hill, cape, promontory, mull, forehead, foreland, point of land, mole, jetty, hummock, ledge, spur, naze, ness, convex, prominent, protuberant, projecting, bossed, embossed, bossy, nodular, bunchy, clavate, clavated, claviform, hummocky, moutonne, mammiliform, papulous, papilose, hemispheric, bulbous, bowed, arched, bold, bellied, tuberous, tuberculous, tumous, cornute, odontoid, lentiform, lenticular, gibbous, club shaped, hubby, hubbly, knobby, papillose, saddle-shaped, selliform, subclavate, torose, ventricose, verrucose, salient, in relief, raised, repousse, bloated, (expanded).

Opening

N opening, hole, foramen, puncture, perforation, fontanel, transforation, pinhole, keyhole, loophole, porthole, peephole, mousehole, pigeonhole, eye of a needle, eyelet, slot, opening, aperture, apertness, hiation, yawning, oscitancy, dehiscence, patefaction, pandiculation, chasm, embrasure, window, casement, abatjour, light, sky light, fan light, lattice, bay window, bow window, oriel, dormer, lantern, outlet, inlet, vent, vomitory, embouchure, orifice, mouth, sucker, muzzle, throat, gullet, weasand, wizen, nozzle, placket, portal, porch, gate, ostiary, postern, wicket, trapdoor, hatch, door, arcade, cellarway, driveway, gateway, doorway, hatchway, gangway, lich gate, way, path, thoroughfare, channel, passage, passageway, tube, pipe, water pipe, air pipe, vessel, tubule, canal, gut, fistula, adjutage, ajutage, ostium, smokestack, chimney, flue, tap, funnel, gully, tunnel, main, mine, pit, adit, shaft, gallery, alley, aisle, glade, vista, bore, caliber, pore, blind orifice, fulgurite, thundertube, porousness, porosity, sieve, cullender, colander, cribble, riddle, screen, honeycomb, apertion, perforation, piercing, terebration, empalement, pertusion, puncture, acupuncture, penetration, key, opener, master key, password, combination, passe- partout, open, perforated, perforate, wide open, ajar, unclosed, unstopped, oscitant, gaping, yawning, patent, tubular, cannular, fistulous, pervious, permeable, foraminous, vesicular, vasicular, porous, follicular, cribriform, honeycombed, infundibular, riddled, tubulous, tubulated, piped, tubate, opening, aperient, Int, open sesame!.

Ejection

VB give exit, give vent to, let out, give out, pour out, squeeze out, send out, dispatch, despatch, exhale, excern, excrete, embogue, secrete, secern, extravasate, shed, void, evacuation, emit, open the sluices, open the floodgates, turn on the tap, extrude, detrude, effuse, spend, expend, pour forth, squirt, spirt, spurt, spill, slop, perspire, breathe, blow, tap, draw off, bale out, lade out, let blood, broach, eject, reject, expel, discard, cut, send to coventry, boycott, chasser, banish, bounce, fire, fire out, throw, throw out, throw up, throw off, throw away, throw aside, push, throw out, throw off, throw away, throw aside, shovel out, shovel away, sweep out, sweep away, brush off, brush away, whisk off, whisk away, turn off, turn away, send off, send away, discharge, send adrift, turn adrift, cast adrift, turn out, bundle out, throw overboard, give the sack to, send packing, send about one's business, send to the right about, strike off the roll, turn out neck and heels, turn out head and shoulders, turn out neck and crop, pack off, send away with a flea in the ear, send to Jericho, bow out, show the door to, turn out of doors, turn out of house and home, evict, oust, unhouse, unkennel, dislodge, unpeople, dispeople, depopulate, relegate, deport, empty, drain to the dregs, sweep off, clear off, clear out, clear away, suck, draw off, clean out, make a clean sweep of, clear decks, purge, embowel, disbowel, disembowel, eviscerate, gut, unearth, root out, root up, averuncate, weed out, get out, eliminate, get rid of, do away with, shake off, exenterate, vomit, throw up, regurgitate, spew, puke, keck, retch, heave, upchuck, chuck up, barf, belch out, cast up, bring up, be sick, get sick, worship the porcelain god, disgorge, expectorate, clear the throat, hawk, spit, sputter, splutter, slobber, drivel, slaver, slabber, eructate, drool, unpack, unlade, unload, unship, offload, break bulk, dump, be let out, spew forth, erupt, ooze.

Lake

N gulf, lake, land covered with water, gulf, gulph, bay, inlet, bight, estuary, arm of the sea, bayou, fiord, armlet, frith, firth, ostiary, mouth, lagune, lagoon, indraught, cove, creek, natural harbor, roads, strait, narrows, Euripus, sound, belt, gut, kyles, continental slope, continental shelf, lake, loch, lough, mere, tarn, plash, broad, pond, pool, lin, puddle, slab, well, artesian well, standing water, dead water, sheet of water, fish pond, mill pond, ditch, dike, dyke, dam, reservoir, alberca, barachois, hog wallow, lacustrine.