discide

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/dɪˈsaɪd/

verb

To cut apart; to cut into pieces.

OriginLatin discidere →
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Meanings

verbdiscide (third-person singular simple present discides, present participle disciding, simple past and past participle discided)

present singular third person discides · participle present disciding · participle past discided · past discided

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo cut apart; to cut into pieces.

    And both the parts did speake, and both contended; And as her tongue so was her hart discided, That never thoght one thing, but doubly stil was guided

    1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin

  1. Latindiscidere
  2. Englishdiscide

From Latin discidere.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Sounds the same

decide
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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