Dissever vs Sunder - What's the difference?
dissever | sunder | Related terms |
To separate; to split apart.
* Sir Philip Sidney
* 1946 , Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy , I.16:
To divide into separate parts.
To break or separate or to break apart, especially with force.
To , separate.
(UK, dialect, dated, transitive) To expose to the sun and wind.
a separation into parts; a division or severance
* 1939 , , Additional Poems , VII, lines 2-4
As verbs the difference between dissever and sunder
is that dissever is to separate; to split apart while sunder is to break or separate or to break apart, especially with force.As an adjective sunder is
sundry; separate; different.As a noun sunder is
a separation into parts; a division or severance.dissever
English
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
*sunder
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) .Derived terms
*Etymology 2
From (etyl) . More at sundry.Verb
(en verb)- {{quote-book
citation, genre= , publisher=Llumina Press , isbn=9781932047233 , page=69 , passage=… Carlo finally saw Everything, before it sunders' into things; he saw Knowledge before it '''sunders''' into knowing; he saw Integrity before it '''sunders''' in integrals; he saw Unity before it ' sunders into units. }}
- (Halliwell)
Quotations
* 1881 , Severed Selves, lines 8-9 *: '' Two souls, the shores wave-mocked of sundering seas: — *: '' Such are we now.Derived terms
* asunder * sunderanceNoun
(en noun)- He would not stay for me to stand and gaze.
- I shook his hand and tore my heart in sunder
- And went with half my life about my ways.