disbranching

Verb

disbranch (third-person singular simple present disbranches, present participle disbranching, simple past and past participle disbranched)

1. (transitive) 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 […]1761, John Mordant, The Complete Steward
2. (intransitive) 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.c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...