discerp : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: discerp	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for discerp
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
discerp v divide into pieces; "our department was dismembered when our funding dried up"; "The Empire was discerped after the war" Synonym(s): dismember, take apart, discerp cut off from a whole; "His head was severed from his body"; "The soul discerped from the body" Synonym(s): discerp, sever, lop
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Discerp \Dis*cerp"\, v. t. [L. discerpere, discerptum; dis- + carpere to pluck.] 1. To tear in pieces; to rend. [R.] --Stukeley. 2. To separate; to disunite. [R.] --Bp. Hurd.