éventrer
French, verb/e.vɑ̃.tʁe/
éventrer is spelled É-V-E-N-T-R-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written French, the 83,718th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Éventrer is a French verb meaning “to gut, to disembowel” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ouvrir le ventre pour en tirer les intestins”.
What does éventrer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to gut, to disembowel
- 2
to rip apart, to tear open
- 3
to gore
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Ouvrir le ventre pour en tirer les intestins. 2. Blesser en déchirant ou en fendant le ventre. 3. Ouvrir de force et en déchirant ; faire une brèche.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of éventrer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- éventrant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- éventré participle past
- éventre first-person indicative present
- éventres indicative present second-person
- éventrons first-person indicative plural
- éventrez indicative plural present
- éventrent indicative plural present
- éventrais first-person imperfect indicative
- éventrait imperfect indicative singular
- éventrions first-person imperfect indicative
- éventriez imperfect indicative plural
- éventraient imperfect indicative plural
- éventrai first-person historic indicative
- éventras historic indicative past
- éventra historic indicative past
- éventrâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce éventrer?
- /e.vɑ̃.tʁe/
- \e.vɑ̃.tʁe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to éventrer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is éventrer in French?
éventrer appears about once in every 6 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).