noun. The act of cutting off.

noun. The shedding of leaves, flowers, or fruits following the formation of the abscission zone.

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noun. The act of cutting off; severance; removal.

noun. The act of putting an end to; the act of annulling or abolishing. Sir T. Browne.

noun. Retrenchment.

noun. The sudden termination of a disease by death. Hooper, Med. Dict.

noun. In rhetoric, a figure of speech consisting in a sudden reticence, as if the words already spoken made sufficiently clear what the speaker would say if he were to finish the sentence: as, “He is a man of so much honor and candor, and such generosity—but I need say no more.”

noun. In astrology, the cutting off or preventing of anything shown by one aspect by means of another.

noun. The act or process of cutting off.

noun. The state of being cut off.

noun. 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.”

noun. The act or process of cutting off.

noun. A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly

noun. the act of cutting something off

noun. shedding of flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of scar tissue in a plant

"Abscission = cutting off, separation Usage: when a flower or leaf separates naturally from the parent, this process is called abscission 13."