Learn English – What does “gut over” mean

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What does "gutted over" mean in Javad Zarif's recent tweet?

Mr.Secretary, was it Iran that gutted over half of US draft Thursday night? and publicly commented against it Friday morning?

Best Answer

My first reaction, given that Iran and the US are currently negotiating, was that Iran had effectively destroyed an American draft proposal by disagreeing with or insisting on the removal of more than half of the wording, to much the same effect as when a cook guts a fish.