Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of cutting off or down.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The act of cutting down, as of trees; the act of cutting off.
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- noun obsolete The act of
cutting down , as oftrees .
Etymologies
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Latin succisio, from succidere, succisum, to cut away below, sub under + caedere to cut.
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