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Disunite vs Dissever - What's the difference?

disunite | dissever | Related terms |

As verbs the difference between disunite and dissever

is that disunite is to cause disagreement or alienation among or within while dissever is to separate; to split apart.

disunite

English

Verb

  • To cause disagreement or alienation among or within.
  • * 1516 , , Utopia , "Of Their Military Discipline":
    • If they cannot disunite them by domestic broils, then they engage their neighbours against them.
  • * 1863 , , Hard Cash , ch. 44:
    • Secrets disunite a family.
  • To separate, sever, or split.
  • * 1899 , , Jennie Baxter, Journalist , ch. 16:
    • I have discovered how to disunite that force and that particle.
  • To disintegrate; to come apart.
  • * 1843 , , A Blot In The 'Scutcheon , Act I:
    • You cannot bind me more to you, my lord.
    Farewell till we renew... I trust, renew
    A converse ne'er to disunite again.

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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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