dissever

verb
/dɪˈsɛvə/UK/dɪˈsɛvɚ/US

Etymology

From Middle English disseveren, from Anglo-Norman desevrer, Old French dessevrer, from Vulgar Latin *dissēperō, dissēperāre, from Latin dis- + sēparō.

  1. derived from dis-
  2. derived from dissepero
  3. derived from dessevrer
  4. derived from desevrer
  5. inherited from disseveren

Definitions

  1. To separate (two or more things)

    To separate (two or more things); to split apart (something).

    • [T]he ſaid floud of Rubicon diſſeuereth the Galle Ciſalpine from Italie.
    • The storm so dissevered the company […] that most of them never met again.
    • They were two cousins, almost like two twins, / Except that from the catalogue of sins / Nature had razed their love—which could not be / But by dissevering their nativity.
  2. To divide (something) into separate parts.

    • If the bridge is destroyed, the shores are dissevered.

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