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; torend . - verb To
separate ; todisunite .
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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