disbranch

Etymology

From dis- + branch.

disbranch means to remove a branch or branches. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.

verb

To remove a branch or branches.“There is no tree admits of transplantation so well as the Elm, for a tree of twenty years growth will admit of a remove. Mr. Evelyn says, he has removed them twice as big as a man's waist ; but then they were totally disbranched, the top being left only intire […]”
To tear away; to break off.“She that herself will sliver and disbranch From her material sap, perforce must wither, And come to deadly use.”