Concept cluster: Activities > Cutting or separating
v
(transitive, obsolete) To lay bare, as the roots of a tree, by loosening or removing soil.
n
A cutting away.
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The act or process of cutting off.
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(transitive, biology, mycology) To cut off, as in abstriction; abjoint
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(rare) The act of sharpening.
n
Either end of an avulsion
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(now rare) To disembowel.
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(transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) divide into separate parts or subdivisions.
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The act of cleaving or the state of being cleft.
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(metaphoric) The act of eliminating someone or something, especially when done by someone with a history of other eliminations; a dismissal, rejection, or removal.
n
The act of one who cleaves, splits, or severs.
v
(transitive) To break into smaller portions.
n
A cutting off; a division; a schism or faction.
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The act by which things are culled; the process of selecting for acceptance or removal.
adj
Reduced in size or scope.
v
(transitive) To remove burrs from (a workpiece).
n
(rare) The action or process of lopping off the top of a tree.
v
(transitive) To remove the tail from.
n
The act of plucking off; a cropping.
v
To remove clumps (from)
n
One who declutters.
v
(transitive) To behead.
v
(obsolete) To cut short; to curtail.
n
(obsolete) The act of cutting short.
v
(transitive) To rid of mice.
v
(transitive) To remove nails (the body parts) from.
n
One who, or that which, derails.
n
The act of destroying.
n
A person or organization that carries out detinning.
n
The act of lopping or cutting off, as the head from the body.
v
(transitive) To remove the wool from.
n
(obsolete) The act of drawing apart; separation.
n
The act or process of dilacerating; tearing to pieces.
n
The act of pulling or tearing something to pieces
n
The act by which somebody is disemboweled.
n
One who disembowels.
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The act by which somebody is disembowelled.
v
To disinter; to dig up from the earth.
v
(transitive) To remove the outlines of; to efface.
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(countable) The act of dismembering.
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The act of dissevering; disseverance.
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The act of separating by force, especially by dilation or pulling apart.
v
To disembowel.
v
(transitive) To remove dross from.
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(transitive, obsolete) To render smooth; to polish.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To draw out or extract.
n
An act of disembowelment.
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One who erodes.
v
(transitive) To carry out euthanasia on (a person or animal).
v
To castrate.
v
(transitive) To disembowel, to remove the viscera.
v
(obsolete) To whet or sharpen.
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The act of excoriating or flaying.
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The act of stripping off bark, or the state of being thus stripped.
v
(obsolete) To exhume; to disinter.
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The act of digging up that which has been buried.
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One who exhumes or disinters.
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A cutting out or away.
v
(transitive) To select parts of a whole
v
To fork or branch out.
v
(transitive) To eviscerate.
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(literally) One who shrinks heads, as previously done by some Amazon tribes.
v
(transitive, military) To send (soldiers, spies, etc.) through gaps in the enemy line.
n
A cutting off, through, or asunder; interruption.
v
(transitive, computing) To modify (an identifier from source code) so as to produce a unique identifier for internal use by the compiler, etc.
n
The act by which something is neutered.
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The total destruction of something.
n
A second or subsequent blockage.
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The act of division, separation, cutting, cleaving, or severing; cleavage.
n
(obsolete) The act of disjoining, or the state of being disjoined.
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The act of severing or the state of being severed.
adj
Separated, cut off or broken apart.
v
To reduce in size or weight.
n
One who, or that which, siphons.
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(obsolete) The act of cutting down, as of trees.
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The act or process of sundering; separation.
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The act by which something is sundered.
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The act of sundering.
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(transitive) To render unsharp; to spoil the sharpness of (something).
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(transitive) To take (something) from a tomb; to disinter, to exhume.

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