3575 🗳️ DISCESS

[Paul Keating]

I have fourteen definitions of DISCESS for you to choose from: Please vote for two, by the deadline, which is Monday 1 September at 09h00 CEST (countdown timer here: ⏱️), or 48 hours from time of posting. Early closing will apply as usual.

1	To methodically dismantle a plan or idea before it’s fully formed, often out of caution or perfectionism; frequently referred to as “analysis paralysis.”
2	The moment of psychological detachment that occurs just before a person decides to abandon a task or relationship.
3	Impressionable; particularly when faced with criticism or insults.
4	Obsolete, rare. To deprive (a person) of a thing.
5	A natural subdivision of a taxonomic group.
6	To lay off; to make redundant.
7	Departure.
8	Archaic. Failure.
9	To lose one’s train of thought.
10	To recover something or someone from a hiding place.
11	A fastening used to provide flexibility in chain mail.
12	Nonce word. To be defenestrated; that is, to be thrown out of a window.
13	To redirect a cyberattack to a monitored decoy system rather than blocking it, allowing security teams to study the attacker's methods.
14	A formal canonical process by which a priest or religious is released from their vows and returned to lay status, distinct from laicization in that it requires the consent of three separate ecclesiastical authorities.

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Paul Keating

Soustons, Nouvelle Aquitaine, France

[Chowie]

1 and 14. Yeah, I can't sleep tonight.

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~Bending under the weight of His mercies~

​"For we cannot do anything against the truth, 

but only for the truth​." 

II Corinthians 13:8

[Daniel B. Widdis]

4 and 9 please

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[Tim Bourne]

6 and 8, please.

Best wishes, Tim Bourne. 

[John Barrs]

#4 and #7 for me please

JohnnyB

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[Judy Madnick]

2 The moment of psychological detachment that occurs just before a person decides to abandon a task or relationship

9 To lose one’s train of thought

 

because there should be a word for both of those!

 

Judy Madnick

[France International/Mike Shefler]

As I am feeling obsolete and archaic today, I'll vote for 4 and 8.

--Mike

[Eric Boxer]

I'll vote for 5 and 7.

-- Eric

[Rey]

4 and 11.

[Glenn Thomas Davis]

Yeah, 4 and 9.

—Glenn

. . .

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.

—Plutarch

On Sat, Aug 30, 2025 at 3:14 PM Rey <r...@rocketcottage.com> wrote:

4 and 11.

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[Tim Lodge]

4 and 9, please.

4

Obsolete, rare. To deprive (a person) of a thing.

9

To lose one’s train of thought.

-- Tim L 

[Efrem Mallach]

4, despite the odd italicization of "of," and 10.

Efrem

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[Shani Naylor]

I'll vote 9 & 12.

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[nancygoat]

7 and 14 for me.

Nancy