Etymology

exscind

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Today it means: To cut out. Full definition →

Latin exscindō
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  1. Latin · learned borrowing fromexscindō“demolish, destroy”
  2. English todayexscind

Learned borrowing from Latin exscindō (“demolish, destroy”), originally in the sense “to destroy utterly”.

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