discerpo

discerpō psī, ptus, ere

dis- + carpo, to tear in pieces, rend, mangle, mutilate : animus nec dividi nec discerpi potest: discerptum regem manibus, L.: membra gruis, H.—Poet.: aurae Omnia discerpunt, scatter , V.— Fig.: divolso et quasi discerpta contrectare, treat in fragments : alqm dictis, Ct.