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gutting

verb

present participle of gut

as in cleaning

to take the internal organs out of you'll need to gut the fish and wash it out before you can cook it

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The lid for covering food on the grill and the magnetic wall strip for knife and utensil storage lack cleaning.

— NWA Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2026
Performing basic maintenance and cleaning the system shouldn’t be too difficult.

— Michael Justin Allen Sexton, PC Magazine, 17 Oct. 2026

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Doctors then discussed removing his tongue, according to Rockett.

— Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2026
The 71-year-old first American pope was admitted to the Gemelli hospital on Tuesday with doctors removing a nodule that was determined to be pulmonary adenocarcinoma, the most common type of lung cancer.

— Christopher Lamb, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026

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