From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Gut \Gut\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gutted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Gutting.]
1. To take out the bowels from; to eviscerate.
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2. To plunder of contents; to destroy or remove the interior
or contents of; as, a mob gutted the house.
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Tom Brown, of facetious memory, having gutted a
proper
name of its vowels, used it as freely as he pleased.
--Addison.
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