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Gut Inside Building Gutted Means Destroy Walls Remain

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To g__ a building means to destroy the inside of it so that only its outside walls remain .To gut a building means to destroy the inside of it so that only its outside walls remain .
Over the weekend, a firebomb gutted a building where 60 people lived.
A factory stands gutted and deserted.
word gut
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noun
A person's or animal's guts are all the organs inside them.
By the time they finish, the crewmen are standing ankle-deep in fish guts.
The gut is the tube inside the body of a person or animal through which food passes while it is being digested .
Guts is the will and courage to do something which is difficult or unpleasant, or which might have unpleasant results.
The new Chancellor has the guts to push through unpopular tax increases.
It takes more guts than I've usually got to go and see him.
A gut feeling is based on instinct or emotion rather than reason .
Let's have your gut reaction to the facts as we know them.
You can refer to someone's stomach as their gut, especially when it is very large and sticks out.
His gut sagged out over his belt.
The guts of something, for example a subject or a machine, are the key elements of it, which make it work.
She has a reputation for getting at the guts of a subject and never pulling her punches.
The guts of the reactor have to be hauled out of the pressure vessel.
Gut is string made from part of the stomach of an animal. Traditionally, it is used to make the strings of sports rackets or musical instruments such as violins .
verb
When someone guts a dead animal or fish, they prepare it for cooking by removing all the organs from inside it.
It is not always necessary to gut the fish prior to freezing.
To gut a building means to destroy the inside of it so that only its outside walls remain .
Over the weekend, a firebomb gutted a building where 60 people lived.
A factory stands gutted and deserted.
inflections gutsguttingguttedspare tyre
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