Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To separate; sever.
- v. To divide into parts; break up.
- v. To become separated or disunited.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To dispart; divide asunder; separate; disunite by any means: as, the Reformation dissevered the Catholic Church.
- To part; separate.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To part in two; to sever thoroughly; to sunder; to disunite; to separate; to disperse.
- v. To part; to separate.
WordNet 3.0
- v. separate into parts or portions
Etymologies
- From Anglo-Norman desevrer, Old French dessevrer, from Latin dissēperō, from dis- + sēparō. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English disseveren, from Old French dessevrer, from Late Latin dissēparāre : Latin dis-, dis- + Latin sēparāre, to separate; see separate. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Granted things like Cellular, TMNT, Push and even the Fantastic Four films are a bit lack luster but I feel Evans consistently preformed higher than any of them dissever.”
“If our politicians in Washington don ` t wake up, more and more Americans are going to dissever themselves from our government.”
“What obstacles can there be, to dissever souls so paired?”
“And then he bade the youngest son dissever every one from other, and break everych by himself.”
“Wherefore, as meseemeth, all gentlemen that bear old arms ought of right to honour Sir Tristram for the goodly terms that gentlemen have and use, and shall to the day of doom, that thereby in a manner all men of worship may dissever a gentleman from a yeoman, and from a yeoman a villain.”
“I was determined to dissever Bodington's soul next time we met if this indecipherable was as tough as his last.”
“I would dissever "the Kid's" memory from that of meaner villains, whose deeds have been attributed to him.”
“You attempt to live your life on one side only, to dissever that which was made for unity, and calamity comes to crush you.”
Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles
“Without hesitation, we may ascribe our minor sorrows to the one self-same source, the attempt to dissever the sensual sweet, the sensual strong, the sensual bright, from the moral sweet, the moral deep, the moral fair.”
Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles
“I had recourse to the expedient of spreading my letters on a dry towel and draining them before attempting to dissever the leaves.”
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘dissever’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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Used
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Undo
A list of terms that denote separating one thing from another, or deconstructing a thing into its parts or to a former state. E.g., untie, divorce, unscramble.
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Cold comfort farm again
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Deceptively named words
Words that mean the opposite of what they sound like they mean
pulchritude, enervate, restive, puissant, redoubtable, spendthrift, quean, matriculate, tripping, gainsay, nonplus, prosaic and 12 more...
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Good Words
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ktrey's wordlist
Words that I like.
Many may be lexicographically impotent due to a lack of citations and definition. Hopefully I'll be able to rectify this eventually.velleity, dispositive, bloviate, bibulous, fungible, concupiscence, avuncular, carnaptious, thrawn, hypocoristic, diegesis, lagniappe and 928 more...
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Words i had to look up
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abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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zeitgeist, ersatz, cupidity, panacea, penchant, verboten, fatuous, expatiate, hauteur, billet-doux, perambulate, reverie and 10 more...
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gregorysandals's Words
ontological, thereabouts, succor, mudita, nevertheless, dissever, sepulchre, weir, corona, sericeous, penultimate, doff and 25 more...
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All Time Favorites!
self explanatory. the best words in the language.
crisp, pluck, raw, vulgar, thick, dour, calico, pad, ruffle, strip, delectation, scud and 7 more...
Tweets
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Louises The talk only a bit dissevered, rises up as if to include him. By James Slater in "A Sport and a Past time". Feb 14, 2013