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Dissociate vs Dissever - What's the difference?

dissociate | dissever |

As verbs the difference between dissociate and dissever

is that dissociate is to make unrelated; to sever a connection; to separate while dissever is to separate; to split apart.

dissociate

English

Verb

  • To make unrelated; to sever a connection; to separate.
    • A number of group members wish to dissociate themselves from the majority.
  • To part; to stop associating.
    • After the big fight, the gang totally dissociated from each other.
  • (chemistry) To separate compounds into simpler component parts, usually by applying heat or through electrolysis.
    • We dissociated the lead iodide into its elements by heating
  • (chemistry) To undergo dissociation.
  • (psychology) To undergo dissociation.
    • Gerald checked himself into the hospital because he was dissociating .

    Antonyms

    * associate

    Derived terms

    * dissociation * dissociative

    Related terms

    * disassociate

    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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