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Word Meanings - DETRUNCATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To shorten by cutting; to cut off; to lop off.

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  • DISINTEGRATE
    To separate into integrant parts; to reduce to fragments or to powder; to break up, or cause to fall to pieces, as a rock, by blows of a hammer, frost, rain, and other mechanical or atmospheric influences. Marlites are not disintegrated by exposure
  • DISINCORPORATE
    1. To deprive of corporate powers, rights, or privileges; to divest of the condition of a corporate body. 2. To detach or separate from a corporation. Bacon.
  • DISMEMBER
    1. To tear limb from limb; to dilacerate; to disjoin member from member; to tear or cut in pieces; to break up. Fowls obscene dismembered his remains. Pope. A society lacerated and dismembered. Gladstone. By whose hands the blow should be struck
  • DETRUNCATE
    To shorten by cutting; to cut off; to lop off.
  • DISMEMBERMENT
    The act of dismembering, or the state of being dismembered; cutting in piece; m The Castilians would doubtless have resented the dismemberment of the unwieldy body of which they formed the head. Macaulay.

 

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