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offsplit

offsplit verb: to split off; secede.

Verb

offsplit (third-person singular simple present offsplits, present participle offsplitting, simple past and past participle offsplit)

  1. (ambitransitive) To split off; secede.
    • This effect is mostly valid for the condition mostly inclined to offsplit, ie.^([sic]) for a paint on gold.1999, Carlo Federici, Paola Munafò, editors, International conference on conservation and restoration of archival and library materials

Noun

offsplit (plural offsplits)

  1. A splitting off or breaking away from; a secession; divergence.
    • If, in accordance with modern view of the phenomenology of religion, we want to look upon Baal as an offsplit of El, we are for several reasons prompted to regard this offsplit, at first hand, [...]1956, Gunnar Östborn, Yahweh and Baal
    • If he has any claim to innovative importance or influence, it is probably because of his Singspiele, produced in Vienna in the latter part of his career, which certainly hastened the offsplit of German opera from the Italian tradition.2007, David Mason Greene, Greene's biographical encyclopedia of composers

Forms of offsplit

Verb
third-person singular presentoffsplits
present participleoffsplitting
past participleoffsplit
pastoffsplit
alternative formoff-split
Noun
pluraloffsplits

Origin of offsplit

From off- + split. Cognate with Dutch afsplitten (“to split off”), German Low German ofsplieten, ofsplitten (“to split off”), German abspalten (“to split off, secede”).

Questions about offsplit

What does offsplit mean?
Offsplit means to split off; secede.
What part of speech is offsplit?
Offsplit can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of offsplit?
The past tense of offsplit is offsplit.

Words near offsplit in the dictionary

  1. offsmite
  2. offspeed
  3. offspin
  4. offspinner
  5. offspinners
  6. offsplit
  7. offsplits
  8. offsplitting
  9. offspring
  10. offspringing
  11. offspringless

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