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noun
The loss or separation of a body part, either by surgery or due to trauma.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences
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noun
An abrupt change in the course of a river, typically from one channel to another.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Movement of soil during a flood, or during a change in the course of a river, especially when a resulting change of land ownership is involved.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: geography, hydrology, natural-sciences
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noun
a forcible tearing or surgical separation of one body part from another
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: separation
noun
an abrupt change in the course of a stream that forms the boundary between two parcels of land resulting in the loss of part of the land of one landowner and a consequent increase in the land of another
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: change, alteration, modification
History
From Latin avulsio from a- + vellō.
Across languages
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