Dissociate vs Dissever - What's the difference?
dissociate | dissever |
To make unrelated; to sever a connection; to separate.
To part; to stop associating.
(chemistry) To separate compounds into simpler component parts, usually by applying heat or through electrolysis.
(chemistry) To undergo dissociation.
(psychology) To undergo dissociation.
To separate; to split apart.
* Sir Philip Sidney
* 1946 , Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy , I.16:
To divide into separate parts.
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
- A number of group members wish to dissociate themselves from the majority.
- After the big fight, the gang totally dissociated from each other.
- We dissociated the lead iodide into its elements by heating
- Gerald checked himself into the hospital because he was dissociating .
Antonyms
* associateDerived terms
* dissociation * dissociativedissever
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.