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ā-vŏlo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n., to fly forth or away: per aetherias umbras, Cat. 66, 55: auspicanti pullos avolāsse, Suet. Galb. 18 fin.; Dig. 41, 1, 5.
Hence, of persons, to flee away, to go away quickly, to hasten away (opp. advolare, to flee to): experiar certe, ut hinc avolem, Cic. Att. 9, 10: avolat ipse, Verg. A. 11, 712: citatis equls avolant Romam, Liv. 1, 57, 8; 3, 61, 7 (al. advolat).
So of dying: Critoni non persuasi me hinc avolaturum, that I shall flee from this world, Cic. Tusc. 1, 43, 103.
Of the vanishing of pleasure: Fluit voluptas corporis et prima quaequo avolat, Cic. Fin. 2, 32, 106.

āvulsĭo (āvol-), ōnis, f. [avello]; in gardening, t. t., a plucking off, tearing off of the branches of a tree: Aut semine (arbores) proveniunt aut plantis radicis aut propagine aut avolsione, Plin. 17, 10, 9, § 58; 17, 13, 21, § 98.

* āvulsor (āvol-), ōris, m. [avello], one that tears off: ubi (spongeae) avolsorem sensere, Plin. 9, 45, 69, § 148.

āvulsus or āvolsus, a, um, Part., v. avello.