eviscerate

Donald Keen氏訳の人間失格, "No Longer Human" から最後の引用です。

The news of my father's death eviscerated me. He was dead, that familiar, frightening presence who had never left my heart for a split second. I felt as though the vessel of my suffering had become empty, as if nothing could interest me now. I had lost even the ability to suffer.

難し単語 "eviscerate" を調べます。

・Oxford English Dictionary: eviscerate something to remove the inner organs of a body
・Cambridge English Dictionary: to remove one or all of the organs from the inside of a body
怖い意味ですね。これが比喩的にも使われると、
・Collins Dictionary: If you say that something will eviscerate an organization or system, you are emphasizing that it will make the organization or system much weaker or much less powerful.: Democrats say the petition will eviscerate state government.
・American Heritage Dictionary: To take away a vital or essential part of; weaken, damage, or destroy: a compromise that eviscerated the proposed bill.