A gut is part of the body inside people and animals. It helps digests food after it leaves the stomach. We often feel feelings in the gut.
Food moves through your gut after eating.
He felt pain deep in his gut.
Guts means being brave inside when facing hard or scary times. People say someone has 'guts' when they do something that needs courage.
She had the guts to speak out loud.
It takes guts to try new things.
A gut feeling means you feel something is true or will happen without proof. It is an instinct or guess from inside, not from thinking a lot.
I have a gut feeling this is right.
Trust your gut, not just your mind.
To gut means to take out the inside parts of an animal or fish. People do this to prepare food or clean the animal before cooking.
He gutted the fish before cooking it.
They gut the chicken carefully after buying.
A gut is a small narrow place where water or people can pass. It is often used for land passages or small waterways near the sea.
The boat sailed through the gut between islands.
They walked along the narrow gut in the valley.
To gut a building means to burn or remove its inside parts, leaving only the outside walls. People do this when repairing or after a fire.
The fire gutted the old house last night.
They gutted the building to fix it inside.
