avulsionn.
/əˈvʌlʃən/ 1. The action of pulling off, plucking out, or tearing away; forcible separation.
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the world > space > place > removal or displacement > [noun] > removal or taking away > violently or tearing off
avulsion1622
discerption1699
stripping1853
1622 H. Peacham Compl. Gentleman viii. 69 By avulsion or diuision of the Sea..Sicily was diuided and seuered from Italy; Cyprus, from Syria.
1708 J. Philips Cyder i. 24 The thronging Clusters thin By kind Avulsion.
1775 T. Jefferson Corr. in Wks. (1859) I. 201 On condition of everlasting avulsion from Great Britain.
1822 C. Lamb Let. 9 Mar. (1935) II. 317 Did the eyes come away kindly with no Œdipean avulsion?
2. A part torn off, a detached portion.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a fragment > torn off
cloutc1325
rug?a1505
avulsion1678
scrid1815
rending1859
tearing1891
1678 R. Cudworth tr. in True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 420 Certain Parts of God, or Decerptions and Avulsions from him.
1807 J. Barlow Columbiad viii. 296 Crash your curst continent, and whirl on high The vast avulsion vaulting thro the sky.
3. Law. The sudden removal of land, by change in a river's course or by the action of flood, to another person's estate; in which case, contrary to the rule respecting alluvion or gradual accretion of soil, it remains the property of the original owner.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > movement of material > [noun] > sudden removal to another's estate
avulsion1864
1864 in Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang.
1880 J. Muirhead Inst. of Gaius & Rules of Ulpian Digest 456 Alluvion,..distinguished from avulsion.
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