dissever
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /dɪˈsɛvə/
  • (GA) IPA: /dɪˈsɛvɚ/
Verb

dissever (dissevers, present participle dissevering; past and past participle dissevered)

  1. To separate; to split apart.
    • The storm so dissevered the company […] that most of them never met again.
    • 1946, Bertrand Russell, A 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.
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