Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To tear in pieces; rend.
  • To separate; disjoin.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb rare To tear in pieces; to rend.
  • transitive verb rare To separate; to disunite.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To tear into pieces; to rend.
  • verb To separate; to disunite.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb divide into pieces
  • verb cut off from a whole

Etymologies

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Latin discerpere, discerptum; dis- + carpere to pluck.

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