Dissever vs Sever - What's the difference?
dissever | sever |
To separate; to split apart.
* Sir Philip Sidney
* 1946 , Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy , I.16:
To divide into separate parts.
To cut free.
* Bible, Matthew xiii. 49
To suffer disjunction; to be parted or separated.
To make a separation or distinction; to distinguish.
(legal) To disunite; to disconnect; to terminate.
As verbs the difference between dissever and sever
is that dissever is to separate; to split apart while sever is to cut free.dissever
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Verb
(en verb)- The storm so dissevered the company that most of them never met again.
- 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’.
- If the bridge is destroyed, the shores are dissevered.
Anagrams
*sever
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Verb
(en verb)- After he graduated, he severed all links to his family.
- to sever the head from the body
- The angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just.
- (Shakespeare)
- The Lord shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt. — Ex. ix. 4.
- They claimed the right of severing in their challenge. — Macaulay.
- to sever an estate in joint tenancy
- (Blackstone)