abscind

[ ab-sind ]

verb (used with object)

1. to sever.

Word History and Origins

Origin of abscind¹

1650–60; < Latin abscindere, equivalent to ab- ab- + scindere to divide, tear

Example Sentences

Abscind, ab-sind′, v.t. to cut off.—n.

From Project Gutenberg

Words which in their shortest form end in -d, -de, -ge, -unit, -rt, -se, -sr, take the ending -sion; e.g., abscind, abscission; include, inclusion; emerge, emersion; remit, remission; infuse, infusion; repress, repression.

From Project Gutenberg

Neither is the c joined with s here to be omitted; as science and conscience, from scientia, conscientia; ascend and descend, from ascendo, descendo; rescind and abscind, from rescindo and abscindo.

From Project Gutenberg

V. subduct, subtract; deduct, deduce; bate, retrench; remove, withdraw, take from, take away; detract. garble, mutilate, amputate, detruncate†; cut off, cut away, cut out; abscind†, excise; pare, thin, prune, decimate; abrade, scrape, file; geld, castrate; eliminate. diminish &c.

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Related Words

• break
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• carve
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