| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | ab·scise |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   b-s z |
| VERB: | Inflected forms: ab·scised, ab·scis·ing, ab·scis·es
| | TRANSITIVE VERB: | To cut off; remove. | | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | To shed by abscission. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Latin abscindere, absciss- : ab-, away; see ab–1 + caedere, to cut; see ka -id- in Appendix I.
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