This week’s theme
Verbs

This week’s words
obtrude
mundify
discerp
elute
micrify

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(di-SUHRP)

MEANING:

verb tr.: To tear off or to rip into pieces.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin discerpere (to tear to pieces), from dis- (apart) + carpere (to pick, pluck). Earliest documented use: 1483.

USAGE:

“Trace shook her head and inhaled through o’d lips, imagining a mother bear or cougar finding, catching, and killing the fawn, discerping it to share with April-born cubs or kits.”
Scott Elliott; Temple Grove; University of Washington Press; 2013.

See more usage examples of discerp in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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