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- [bou-uh l, boul]
- /ˈbaʊ əl, baʊl/
- /ˈbaʊ.əl/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [bou-uh l, boul]
- /ˈbaʊ əl, baʊl/
Definitions of bowel word
- countable noun bowel Your bowels are the tubes in your body through which digested food passes from your stomach to your anus. 3
- noun plural bowel You can refer in a polite way to someone getting rid of the waste from their body by saying that they move, open, or empty their bowels. 3
- noun plural bowel You can refer to the parts deep inside something such as the earth, a building, or a machine as the bowels of that thing. 3
- noun bowel an intestine, esp the large intestine in man 3
- noun bowel innards; entrails 3
- noun bowel the deep or innermost part (esp in the phrase the bowels of the earth) 3
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Origin of bowel
First appearance:
before 1250 One of the 11% oldest English words
1250-1300; Middle English b(o)uel < Old French < Latin botellus little sausage (bot(ulus) sausage + -ellus -elle)
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Bowel
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
bowel popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 88% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
bowel usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for bowel
verb bowel
- boweling — Anatomy. Usually, bowels. the intestine. a part of the intestine.
- dilapidate — to cause or allow (a building, automobile, etc.) to fall into a state of disrepair, as by misuse or neglect (often used passively): The house had been dilapidated by neglect.
- gut — the alimentary canal, especially between the pylorus and the anus, or some portion of it. Compare foregut, midgut, hindgut.
- exenterate — To disembowel; to eviscerate.
adj bowel
- celiac — of or in the abdominal cavity
- duodenal — of or relating to the duodenum.
- intestinal — occurring in or affecting the intestines.
Antonyms for bowel
noun bowel
- disbowel — (rare) To disembowel.
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