dissever

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman desevrer, Old French dessevrer, from Vulgar Latin *dissēperō, dissēperāre, from Latin dis- + sēparō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈsɛvə/
• IPA^(key): /dɪˈsɛvɚ/

Verb

dissever (third-person singular simple present dissevers, present participle dissevering, simple past and past participle dissevered)

1. To separate; to split apart.
   • Sir Philip Sidney

     The storm so dissevered the company […] that most of them never met again.

   • 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.16:

     Philosophers, Socrates continues, try to dissever the soul from communion with the body, whereas other people think that life is not worth living for a man who has ‘no sense of pleasure and no part in bodily pleasure’.

2. To divide into separate parts.

   If the bridge is destroyed, the shores are dissevered.

Related terms

• sever

Translations

separate; split apart

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divide into separate parts

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• Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} разделям (bg) (razdeljam), ^{(please verify)} отделям (bg) (otdeljam)
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Anagrams

• dervises, devisers, disserve