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AVULSE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does avulse mean?
• AVULSE (verb)
The verb AVULSE has 1 sense:
1. separate by avulsion
Familiarity information: AVULSE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they avulse ... he / she / it avulses
Past simple: avulsed
Past participle: avulsed
-ing form: avulsing
... he / she / it avulses Past simple: avulsed
Past participle: avulsed
-ing form: avulsing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Separate by avulsion
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "avulse" is one way to...):
separate (divide into components or constituents)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
avulsion (a forcible tearing or surgical separation of one body part from another)
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