This verb describes cutting away or removing, particularly plants or thorns. Isaiah 33:12 uses it of thorns cut down and burned, symbolizing peoples destroyed in divine judgment. Psalm 80:16 applies it to Israel depicted as a vine that has been cut away. The imagery suggests deliberate removal or destruction, like pruning or harvesting that leaves nothing remaining. Both contexts use agricultural metaphors to describe devastating judgment, where what was once living and growing is cut off and destroyed.