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شَذَبَ

Root: شذب

Form: 1

Full Definition

شَذَبَI , Present.T ـِ and ـُ Verbal.Noun شَذْبٌ, He stripped off, or removed, the bark of a tree; as also شذّب , Verbal.Noun تَشْذِيبٌ: he cut off portions of a tree, or the bark thereof. He cut, or cut off, a thing; Present.T ـِ Verbal.Noun شَذْبٌ. He cut, or lopped, a tree: or he divested it of its bark. He pruned, or pared, a tree by cutting off its شَذَب, i. e. its straggling branches, or its thorns, or its bark; Present.T ـِ Verbal.Noun شَذْبٌ; and شذّب has the like meaning, but importing muchness, or relation to many objects: and شَذَبَ also signifies he trimmed, or cleared, anything by removing another thing from it: or he pruned a tree by lopping off its branches so that it became apparent: and he pruned a palm-tree by cutting off from it its شَذَب, meaning its branches: and [in like manner] شذّب , Verbal.Noun تَشْذِيبٌ, he pruned a tree by cutting off its شَذَب, meaning its straggling branches not in the choice, or best, part thereof: or he trimmed a palm-trunk by lopping off the stumps of the branches: تَشْذِيبُ الرَّيَاحِينِ [likewise] signifies the pruning, or cutting off, the superfluous portions of the straggling extremities of the sprigs of sweet-smelling plants: and شُذِبَ عَنْهُ, said of anything, signifies it was removed from it, namely, another thing.
2 See also 2, in two places.
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