discerp

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

discerp
    v 1: divide into pieces; "our department was dismembered when
         our funding dried up"; "The Empire was discerped after the
         war" [syn: {dismember}, {take apart}, {discerp}]
    2: cut off from a whole; "His head was severed from his body";
       "The soul discerped from the body" [syn: {discerp}, {sever},
       {lop}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Discerp \Dis*cerp"\, v. t. [L. discerpere, discerptum; dis- +
   carpere to pluck.]
   1. To tear in pieces; to rend. [R.] --Stukeley.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. To separate; to disunite. [R.] --Bp. Hurd. Discerpibility