Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To separate; sever.
  • intransitive verb To divide into parts; break up.
  • intransitive verb To become separated or disunited.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To dispart; divide asunder; separate; disunite by any means: as, the Reformation dissevered the Catholic Church.
  • To part; separate.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb To part; to separate.
  • transitive verb To part in two; to sever thoroughly; to sunder; to disunite; to separate; to disperse.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To separate, split apart.
  • verb To divide into separate parts.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb separate into parts or portions

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English disseveren, from Old French dessevrer, from Late Latin dissēparāre : Latin dis-, dis- + Latin sēparāre, to separate; see separate.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Anglo-Norman desevrer, Old French dessevrer, from Latin dissēperō, from dis- + sēparō.

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  • The talk only a bit dissevered, rises up as if to include him. By James Slater in "A Sport and a Past time".

    February 14, 2013