Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To cut off.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb rare To cut off.

Etymologies

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From Latin abscindere, present active infinitive of abscindō ("cut off"), from ab ("from, away from") + scindō ("cut, rend").

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  • aBscIND

    May 9, 2008