cuts off, cuts out; extirpates, destroys.

to break up, destroy, annihilate SN.v.432 (bhavataṇhaṃ), AN.iv.17 (fut. ucchecchāmi to be read with variant reading for T. ucchejjissāmi); Snp.2 (pret. udacchida), Snp.208 (ger. ucchijja); Ja.v.383; D …

…samucchinna.

saṃ + ucchindati

…= ˚vāda Ne.111; Ja.v.244.

fr. ud + chid, chind, see ucchindati & cp. cheda

broken up, destroyed SN.iii.10; AN.v.32; Snp.746. Cp. sam˚.

pp. of ucchindati

3^rd sg. praet. of ucchindati to break up Snp.2, Snp.3 (˚ā metri causa).

…Ja.v.383 vaṃsaṃ ucchindati id. Ja.v.383; or upacchindati Ja.iv.63 opp….