Sever vs Disunite - What's the difference?
sever | disunite |
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.
To cause disagreement or alienation among or within.
* 1516 , , Utopia , "Of Their Military Discipline":
* 1863 , , Hard Cash , ch. 44:
To separate, sever, or split.
* 1899 , , Jennie Baxter, Journalist , ch. 16:
To disintegrate; to come apart.
* 1843 , , A Blot In The 'Scutcheon , Act I:
As verbs the difference between sever and disunite
is that sever is to cut free while disunite is to cause disagreement or alienation among or within.sever
English
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)
Synonyms
* becut * cut offDerived terms
* severable * severallyExternal links
* * *Anagrams
* * * ----disunite
English
Verb
- If they cannot disunite them by domestic broils, then they engage their neighbours against them.
- Secrets disunite a family.
- I have discovered how to disunite that force and that particle.
- You cannot bind me more to you, my lord.
- Farewell till we renew... I trust, renew
- A converse ne'er to disunite again.