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Webster 1913 Edition
Dissever
Dis-sev′er
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Dissevered
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Dissevering
.] [OE.
dessevrer
; pref. des-
(L. dis-
) + sevrer
to sever, F. sevrer
to wean, L. separate
to separate. In this word the prefix is intensive. See Dis-
, and Sever
.] To part in two; to sever thoroughly; to sunder; to disunite; to separate; to disperse.
The storm so
dissevered
the company . . . that most of therm never met again. Sir P. Sidney.
States
disserved
, discordant, belligerent. D. Webster.
Dis-sev′er
,Verb.
I.
To part; to separate.
Chaucer.
Webster 1828 Edition
Dissever
DISSEVER
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
dissever
dissever
English
Verb
dissever (third-person singular simple present dissevers, present participle dissevering, simple past and past participle dissevered)
- To separate; to split apart.
- Sir Philip Sidney
- The storm so dissevered the company […] that most of them never met again.
- 1946, Bertrand Russell, 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’.
- Sir Philip Sidney
- To divide into separate parts.
- If the bridge is destroyed, the shores are dissevered.
Translations
separate; split apart
divide into separate parts