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Disjoin vs Dissever - What's the difference?

disjoin | dissever | Synonyms |

As verbs the difference between disjoin and dissever

is that disjoin is to separate; to disunite while dissever is to separate; to split apart.

disjoin

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To separate; to disunite.
  • * Milton
    • That marriage, therefore, God himself disjoins .
  • * Addison
    • Never let us lay down our arms against France, till we have utterly disjoined her from the Spanish monarchy.
  • * Pennant
    • Windmill Street consisted of disjoined houses.
  • To become separated.

    • Related terms

    * disjoint * disjunct * disjunction

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    dissever

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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’.
  • To divide into separate parts.
    • If the bridge is destroyed, the shores are dissevered.

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