(n) altering something (as a legislative act or a statement) in such a manner as to reduce its value, Example:the adoption of their amendments would have amounted to an evisceration of the act
v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Eviscerated p. pr. & vb. n. Eviscerating ] [ L. evisceratus, p. p. of eviscerare to eviscerate; e out + viscera the bowels. See Viscera. ] To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; to gut. [ 1913 Webster ]