Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To separate, cut, or tear off by avulsion.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To pluck or pull off. Shenstone.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To pluck or pull off.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb medicine To
tear offforcibly .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb separate by avulsion
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Latin āvellere, āvuls-, to tear off : ā-, ab-, away; see ab– + vellere, to pull.]
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from Latin
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Examples
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The singularity matrix will avulse at the Gamma Quadrant entrance in approximately eighteen hours.
Time's Enemy Graf, L. A. 1996
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The force exerted by the cog drawing on the rope was sufficient to avulse his whole arm and shoulder-blade.
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The force exerted by the cog drawing on the rope was sufficient to avulse his whole arm and shoulder-blade.
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