Discerp

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Discerp \Dis*cerp"\, v. t. [L. discerpere, discerptum; dis- +
     carpere to pluck.]
     1. To tear in pieces; to rend. [R.] --Stukeley.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. To separate; to disunite. [R.] --Bp. Hurd. Discerpibility



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  discerp
       v 1: divide into pieces; "our department was dismembered when our
            funding dried up"; "The Empire was discerped after the
            war" [syn: {dismember}, {take apart}]
       2: cut off from a whole; "His head was severed from his body";
          "The soul discerped from the body" [syn: {sever}, {lop}]