Definition of "premorse" []

• Abruptly truncated, as though bitten or broken off: a premorse leaf. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "As I looked over the water, I saw the isles rapidly wasting away, the sea nibbling voraciously at the continent, the springing arch of a hill suddenly interrupted, as at Point Alderton, -- what botanists might call premorse, -- showing, by its curve against the sky, how much space it must have occupied, where now was water only."
• "It's my own personal phenomenon: buyer's premorse."