Crossword-Solution: ABSCISSION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Abscission | n. | The act or process of cutting off. |
| Abscission | n. | The state of being cut off. |
| Abscission | n. | A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly: thus, "He is a man of so much honor and candor, and of such generosity -- but I need say no more." |
We have 12 clues for the answer “ABSCISSION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Decapitation | 1 answer |
| The process by which dead leaves break off naturally from a plant | 1 answer |
| shedding of flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of scar tissue in a plant | 1 answer |
| cutting off | 2 answers |
| Incision | 13 answers |
| disconnection | 13 answers |
| detachment | 67 answers |
| Layer | 69 answers |
| Parting | 75 answers |
| Partition | 80 answers |
| divorce | 80 answers |
| DIVISION ___ | 86 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTEAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ABSCISSION (5)
The tailor, with fresh-ground shears, and perfect faith in the gentility and solvency of his "client," snips, and snips, and snips, until the "superfine" grows, with each abscission, into the first style of elegance and fashion, and the excited schneider feels himself "every inch a king," his shop a herald's college, and every brown paper pattern garnishing its walls, an escutcheon of gentility.
The tailor, with fresh-ground shears, and perfect faith in the gentility and solvency of his client, snips, and snips, and snips, until the superfine grows, with each abscission, into the first style of elegance and fashion, and the excited schneider feels himself every inch a king, his shop a heralds college, and every brown paper pattern garnishing its walls, an escutcheon of gentility.
Abscission layers are formed and shucks, hulls, or burs split open on drying out, thus partially or wholly releasing the nuts.
What therefore may consist with history, by cessation of Oracles with _Montacutius_ we may understand their intercision, not abscission or consummate desolation; their rare delivery, not total dereliction, and yet in regard of divers Oracles, we may speak strictly, and say there was a proper cessation.
Take, for instance, the abscission of the Sun’s rays which takes place at the time of a solar eclipse.