Retrench: alternatives and connections

A, as a prefix to English words, is derived from various sources. (1) It frequently signifies on or in (from an, a forms of AS. on), d…

To take away surreptitiously by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually by violence; to kidnap.

A prefix from a Greek preposition. It usually signifies from, away from, off, or asunder, separate; as, in apocope (a cutting off), ap…

The person who carries anything away, or the vessel in which things are carried away.

By ellipsis of the verb, equivalent to an imperative: Go or come away; begone; take away.

Turned away; away.

To trade or exchange in the way of barter; to exchange (frequently for an unworthy consideration); to traffic; to truck; -- sometimes…

A kind of plow, driven by the breast of the workman; -- used to cut or pare turf.

To follow as if to catch; to pursue; to compel to move on; to drive by following; to cause to fly; -- often with away or off; as, to c…

To cut, pare, gouge, or engrave with a chisel; as, to chisel a block of marble into a statue.

To pare the beak or talons of (a hawk).

To eat away by degrees; to wear away or diminish by gradually separating or destroying small particles of, as by action of a strong ac…

Having a part cut off or away; having the corners rounded or cut away.

A prefix from Latin de down, from, away; as in debark, decline, decease, deduct, decamp. In words from the French it is equivalent to…

To beguile; to amuse, so as to divert the attention; to while away; to take away as if by deception.

To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away.

To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish; to clear away; to banish; to dissipate; as, to dispel a cloud, vapors, cares, d…

To make away; to put away.