Meaning & use
Avulse
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To tear or pull away forcibly, often used in medical or legal contexts to describe tissue, land, or property being separated abruptly.
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The accident avulsed a small piece of skin from her knuckle.
A flood can avulse land from one property and deposit it on another downstream.
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The word is the root of "avulsion," a term used in both medicine, for torn tissue, and property law, for land shifted suddenly by natural forces.
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