The deepest or innermost part. / The concept or quality that defines something at its very core. / The intestines. / Compassion, sympathy. / (obsolete) The body as the source of offspring.

plural of bowel

(chiefly medicine) A part or division of the intestines, usually the large intestine. / (in the plural) The entrails or intestines; the internal organs of the stomach.

(now rare) To disembowel.

present participle of bowel

simple past tense and past participle of bowel

Having bowels; hollow.

simple past tense and past participle of bowel

present participle of bowel

The discharge of feces from the body, an act of defecation. / The feces thus produced.