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abscise

 
(ăb-sīz') pronunciation

v., -scised, -scis·ing, -scis·es.

v.tr.
To cut off; remove.

v.intr.
To shed by abscission.

[Latin abscindere, absciss- : ab-, away; see ab-1 + caedere, to cut.]


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