disbranchv.
/dɪsˈbrɑːnʃ//dɪsˈbranʃ/ 1. transitive. To cut or break off the branches of; to deprive or strip of branches.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [verb (transitive)] > trees: prune or lop
sneda800
shredc1000
crop?c1225
purgec1384
parea1398
shear1398
shridea1425
dodc1440
polla1449
twist1483
top1509
stow1513
lop1519
bough?1523
head?1523
poll-shred1530
prune1547
prime1565
twig1570
reform1574
disbranch1575
shroud1577
snathe1609
detruncate1623
amputate1638
abnodate1656
duba1661
to strip up1664
reprune1666
pollard1670
shrub1682
log1699
switch1811
limb1835
preen1847
to cut back1871
shrig1873
brash1950
summer prune1980
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > uncover or remove covering from [verb (transitive)] > strip or make bare > strip of branches
disbranch1889
1575 Art of Planting 15 If the trees be great..ye must disbranch them afore ye set them agayne.
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique iii. xlvi. 517 It is best to disbranch and prune trees when the sap beginneth to rise vp into them.
1719 G. London & H. Wise J. de la Quintinie's Compl. Gard'ner (ed. 7) ix. i. 279 Peas that are disbranched, bear a more plentiful Crop than others.
1889 G. G. A. Murray Gobi or Shamo xiv. 228 The fury of the explosion had uprooted and disbranched the..trees.
2. To cut or break off, as a branch; to sever.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > detach [verb (transitive)] > cut off
becarveOE
carvec1000
hewc1000
shredc1275
cuta1300
chapc1325
cleavec1330
off-shearc1330
withscore1340
to cut offc1380
colea1400
slivea1400
to score awayc1400
abscisea1500
discidea1513
sharea1529
off-trenchc1530
off-hewc1540
pare1549
detrench1553
slice?1560
detrunk1566
sneck1578
resect1579
shred1580
curtail1594
off-chop1594
lop?1602
disbranch1608
abscind1610
snip1611
circumcise1613
desecate1623
discerpa1628
amputate1638
absciss1639
prescind1640
notch1820
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xvi. 34 She that her selfe will sliuer and disbranch From her materiall sap, perforce must wither, And come to deadly vse. View more context for this quotation
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. viii. 493/1 That Duke-dome..disbranched from France since the year eight hundred eighty fiue, was againe rent away.
1796 C. Lamb Let. 13 June in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1975) I. 28 I conjecture it is ‘disbranched’ from one of your embryo ‘hymns’.
1865 A. C. Swinburne Atalanta in Calydon 126 All this flower of life Disbranched and desecrated miserably.
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the world > space > relative position > inclination > divergence > diverge [verb (intransitive)] > ramify or branch > branch off or out
issuec1515
branchc1540
disbranch1622
to go off1728
to take off1831
outbranch1835
offset1853
rib1856
1622 H. Peacham Compl. Gentleman xiii. 162 Cavendish..out of which familie disbranched that famous Trauailer, Mr. Thomas Cavendish.
Derivatives
disˈbranched adj.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > [adjective] > stripped or made bare > stripped of branches
disbranched1843
1843 Zoologist 1 305 An old disbranched fir.
disˈbranching n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] > pruning or lopping
shreddingc1000
putation?1440
snathing1485
loppingc1511
brushing1513
topping1513
twisting1535
pruning1548
heading1552
browsing1574
lop1575
disbranching1600
debranching1601
stocking1611
stowing1618
polling1626
supputation1656
summer pruning1669
snedding1720
shrouding1725
pollarding1794
thinning1800
brashing1950
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique iii. xlvi. 515 This disbranching must be done in the decrease of the moone.
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