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
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Examples
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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.
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If our politicians in Washington don ` t wake up, more and more Americans are going to dissever themselves from our government.
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What obstacles can there be, to dissever souls so paired?
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And then he bade the youngest son dissever every one from other, and break everych by himself.
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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.
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I was determined to dissever Bodington's soul next time we met if this indecipherable was as tough as his last.
between silk and cyanide Marks, Leo 1998
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I would dissever "the Kid's" memory from that of meaner villains, whose deeds have been attributed to him.
The Authentic Life of Billy The Kid Garrett, Pat F 1954
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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 W. R. Washington Sullivan
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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 W. R. Washington Sullivan
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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 Various
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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