🔤 Abscise

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URDU

کاٹ کر الگ ہونا، خود بخود جھڑ جانا
🅰️ Roman Urdu:
kat kar alag hona, jhadna, alag karna
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ENGLISH

📚verb
abscise
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PRONUNCIATION

Standard: /æbˈsaɪz/
Phonetic: /ab syz/
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DEFINITION

to cut off or separate; (in botany) to shed or fall off naturally (such as leaves or fruit)
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES

Trees abscise their leaves in autumn to conserve water through winter. The surgeon had to abscise damaged tissue to prevent infection. Ripe fruits eventually abscise from the branch when fully developed. Botany experiments study how plant hormones cause flowers to abscise. Plants abscise diseased parts to protect healthy limbs.
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SYNONYMS

ANTONYMS

attach retain adhere grow on
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