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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (2)

1. divide into pieces;
- Example: "our department was dismembered when our funding dried up"
- Example: "The Empire was discerped after the war"
[syn: dismember, take apart, discerp]

2. cut off from a whole;
- Example: "His head was severed from his body"
- Example: "The soul discerped from the body"
[syn: discerp, sever, lop]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Discerp \Dis*cerp"\, v. t. [L. discerpere, discerptum; dis- +
   carpere to pluck.]
   1. To tear in pieces; to rend. [R.] --Stukeley.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. To separate; to disunite. [R.] --Bp. Hurd. Discerpibility


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

discerp
    v 1: divide into pieces; "our department was dismembered when
         our funding dried up"; "The Empire was discerped after the
         war" [syn: dismember, take apart, discerp]
    2: cut off from a whole; "His head was severed from his body";
       "The soul discerped from the body" [syn: discerp, sever,
       lop]