discerp

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/dɪˈsɜː(ɹ)p/

verb

To tear into pieces; to rend.

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dismembertake apartseverlopbreak up
OriginLatin discerpō →
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Meanings

verbdiscerp (third-person singular simple present discerps, present participle discerping, simple past and past participle discerped)

present singular third person discerps · participle present discerping · participle past discerped · past discerped

  1. To tear into pieces; to rend.

    They would therefore ſay, that tho' these two, the father and the son, are different divine personalities, yet they cannot be called two Gods, or two godheads; for this would be discerping the deity or godhead , which is equally absurd

    1743, William Stukeley, Abury: A Temple of the British Druids
  2. To separate; to disunite.

    […] to reascend the place from whence they came, and rejoin that Substance from whence they were discerped […]

    1738, William Warburton, The Divine Legation of Moses

Synonyms & antonyms

verbdivide into pieces

Similar
dismembertake apart
Broader
separatedividepart

verbcut off from a whole

Similar
severlopbreak up
Broader
cut
Also see
break updecidedismemberdividelopseparatesevertake apart

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Latindiscerpō
  2. Englishdiscerp

From Latin discerpō, from dis- + carpō (“to pluck”).

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APA

discerp. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/discerp

MLA

“discerp.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/discerp. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “discerp,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/discerp.

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