Word of the Day

divulse [\ dahy-VUHLS \ ] , verb;

1. To tear away or apart.

Quotes:

"A perforation having been so made, it is safer to divulse the opening rather than to enlarge it by cutting in order to avoid the possibility of opening a blood vessel in an inaccessible region." ~Eugene Fuller, M.D., The Journal of the American Medical Association

"Even if you are the kooper of the winkel over measure never lost a license. Nor a duckindonche divulse from bath and breakfast." ~James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

Origin:

Divulse comes from the Latin root vellere meaning "plucked". The prefix di- is a variation of dis- before the letter v meaning "apart" or "away", as in disown .