Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To cut off.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To cut off.
Etymologies
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From Latin abscindere, present active infinitive of abscindō ("cut off"), from ab ("from, away from") + scindō ("cut, rend").
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oroboros commented on the word abscind
aBscIND
May 9, 2008