Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. rare To tear in pieces; to rend.
- v. rare To separate; to disunite.
WordNet 3.0
- v. divide into pieces
- v. cut off from a whole
Etymologies
- Latin discerpere, discerptum; dis- + carpere to pluck. (Wiktionary)
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Logolepsy
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ShuckFinn's Words
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
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