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ab·scise

 (ăb-sīz′)
v. ab·scised, ab·scis·ing, ab·scis·es
v.tr.
To cut off; remove.
v.intr.
To shed by abscission.

[Latin abscīdere, abscīs- : ab-, away; see ab-1 + caedere, to cut; see kaə-id- in Indo-European roots.]
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abscise

(æbˈsaɪz)
vb
(Botany) to separate or be separated by abscission
[C17: from Latin abscisus, from abscīdere to cut off]
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ab•scise

(æbˈsaɪz)

v.i. -scised, -scis•ing.
to separate by abscission, as a leaf from a stem.
[1605–15; < Latin abscīsus, past participle of abscīdere to cut off =abs- abs- + -cīdere, comb. form of caedere to cut]
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abscise


Past participle: abscised
Gerund: abscising

Imperative
abscise
abscise
Present
I abscise
you abscise
he/she/it abscises
we abscise
you abscise
they abscise
Preterite
I abscised
you abscised
he/she/it abscised
we abscised
you abscised
they abscised
Present Continuous
I am abscising
you are abscising
he/she/it is abscising
we are abscising
you are abscising
they are abscising
Present Perfect
I have abscised
you have abscised
he/she/it has abscised
we have abscised
you have abscised
they have abscised
Past Continuous
I was abscising
you were abscising
he/she/it was abscising
we were abscising
you were abscising
they were abscising
Past Perfect
I had abscised
you had abscised
he/she/it had abscised
we had abscised
you had abscised
they had abscised
Future
I will abscise
you will abscise
he/she/it will abscise
we will abscise
you will abscise
they will abscise
Future Perfect
I will have abscised
you will have abscised
he/she/it will have abscised
we will have abscised
you will have abscised
they will have abscised
Future Continuous
I will be abscising
you will be abscising
he/she/it will be abscising
we will be abscising
you will be abscising
they will be abscising
Present Perfect Continuous
I have been abscising
you have been abscising
he/she/it has been abscising
we have been abscising
you have been abscising
they have been abscising
Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been abscising
you will have been abscising
he/she/it will have been abscising
we will have been abscising
you will have been abscising
they will have been abscising
Past Perfect Continuous
I had been abscising
you had been abscising
he/she/it had been abscising
we had been abscising
you had been abscising
they had been abscising
Conditional
I would abscise
you would abscise
he/she/it would abscise
we would abscise
you would abscise
they would abscise
Past Conditional
I would have abscised
you would have abscised
he/she/it would have abscised
we would have abscised
you would have abscised
they would have abscised
Collins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Verb1.abscise - shed flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of a scar tissue
abscise - remove or separate by abscission
cast off, shed, throw off, throw away, shake off, throw, cast, drop - get rid of; "he shed his image as a pushy boss"; "shed your clothes"
2.abscise - remove or separate by abscissionabscise - remove or separate by abscission  
abscise - shed flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of a scar tissue
chop off, lop off, cut off - remove by or as if by cutting; "cut off the ear"; "lop off the dead branch"
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The fourth possibility is that the viviparous shoot could abscise and fall to the forest floor.
Boys and girls were separated, and each group was subdivided according their Tanner stage (abscise axis)--obesity and normal-weight groups.
In regions, where HLB is endemic, citrus trees produce unmarketable fruit as it abscise prematurely and mostly die within 5 to 8 years (Baldwin et al., 2010).
Galls induced by Gynaikothrips form in less than 24 h, and folded leaves do not recover (Paine 1992) and often abscise (Arthurs et al.
Excessive temperatures cause flowers to abscise, and low temperatures delay pod production and can result in empty pods.
Impedance spectra consist of a high-frequency intercept with the abscise axis and the main semicircle at middle and low frequencies.
The term is broadly defined here; essays look usefully at perishable materials, conceptual art that may be purchased as specific materials but not defined in any way by them, time-based work that raises questions of how much of the work is permanent installation vs temporary performance, technology-dependent work where required components eventually will abscise and no longer be replaceable, site-specific work which has been destroyed and questions arise as to how an attempt to remake it, and so on.
The abscise axis of these figures contains the order number of harmonics of the output emf.
For each x [member of] [A.sup.*], [DELTA](x) is the R region centroid abscise, with R limited by the membership function of the fuzzy output, [??]x,(see Figure 4).
By using the Lambert II projection the latitude and longitude coordinates can be translated into abscise and ordinate that will further help for the distances calculus.
In the laboratory, both female (n = 3) and male (n =1) had the same development time of nine days within the cocoon and presented similar colors, a lower face elongated 0.7 times as broad as high, smooth with bearing hairs and two shallow grooves in the median part, head with gena long in dorsal view, scutellum convex, mesopleuron and propodeum smooth and polished with sparse hairs, the latter with longitudinal carina present only posteriorly, submetapleural carina absent, fore wing with cu-a interstitial to the base of Rs & M, vein 3r-s absent, hind wing with abscise Cu1 equidistant between M and 1A.