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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To separate, cut, or tear off by avulsion.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To pluck or pull off. Shenstone.

Wiktionary

  1. v. medicine To tear off forcibly.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To pluck or pull off.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. separate by avulsion

Etymologies

  1. from Latin (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin āvellere, āvuls-, to tear off : ā-, ab-, away; see ab-1 + vellere, to pull. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “The singularity matrix will avulse at the Gamma Quadrant entrance in approximately eighteen hours.”

    Time's Enemy

  • “The force exerted by the cog drawing on the rope was sufficient to avulse his whole arm and shoulder-blade.”

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

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