To pluck out (hair) by the roots. Also absol.

transitive. To pluck or draw out (a feather, hair, etc.). Also figurative.

transitive. To pluck off or out; to extract, excerpt.

In etymological sense: To pluck out; to abstract, remove; also figurative. Obsolete.

= decerp, v.

transitive. Physical Geography. Chiefly of glacier ice: to break loose and bear away (pieces of rock) by mechanical force; to erode (rock) by…