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dissever

/dɪˈsɛvə/US/dɪˈsɛvɚ/

dissever verb: to separate (two or more things); to split apart (something).

Verb

dissever (third-person singular simple present dissevers, present participle dissevering, simple past and past participle dissevered)

  1. (transitive) To separate (two or more things); to split apart (something).
    • [T]he ſaid floud of Rubicon diſſeuereth the Galle Ciſalpine from Italie.1564 February, Erasmus, “The Saiynges of Iulius Caesar”, in Nicolas Udall [i.e., Nicholas Udall], transl., Apophthegmes, that is to Saie, Prompte, Quicke, Wittie and Sentẽcious Saiynges, […], London...
    • The storm so dissevered the company […] that most of them never met again.a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London...
  2. (transitive) To divide (something) into separate parts.
    • If the bridge is destroyed, the shores are dissevered.
    • When the corn is threshed, the kernel lieth mixed among the chaff, and afterward are they dissevered asunder with the fan or windle; even so the people in the church do first hear the preaching of God's word; now some stumble, repine, and are offended at it, and others are not offended, and yet...1844, George Miles Coverdale, Writings and Translations of Myles Coverdale

dissever meaning in Tamil and Kannada

dissever in Tamil

துண்டி, வெட்டு, ஒட்டை அறு, பிரித்தெடு

dissever in Kannada

ತುಂಡಿಸು

Examples of dissever in a sentence

  • They were two cousins, almost like two twins, / Except that from the catalogue of sins / Nature had razed their love—which could not be / But by dissevering their nativity.a. 1823 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “A Fragment”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […]...
  • Henchard’s wife was dissevered from him by death; his friend and helper Farfrae by estrangement; Elizabeth-Jane by ignorance.1886 May, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder & Co....

Forms of dissever

third-person singular presentdissevers
present participledissevering
past participledissevered
pastdissevered

Origin of dissever

From Middle English disseveren, from Anglo-Norman desevrer, Old French dessevrer, from Vulgar Latin *dissēperō, dissēperāre, from Latin dis- + sēparō.

Words formed from dissever

Questions about dissever

What does dissever mean?
Dissever means to separate (two or more things); to split apart (something).
What is dissever in Tamil?
Dissever in Tamil is துண்டி, வெட்டு, ஒட்டை அறு. See Dissever meaning in Tamil.
How do you use dissever in a sentence?
They were two cousins, almost like two twins, / Except that from the catalogue of sins / Nature had razed their love—which could not be / But by dissevering their nativity.
What part of speech is dissever?
Dissever is a verb.
How do you pronounce dissever?
Dissever is pronounced /dɪˈsɛvə/ (UK).
What is the past tense of dissever?
The past tense of dissever is dissevered.

Words near dissever in the dictionary

  1. dissettled
  2. dissettlement
  3. dissettlements
  4. dissettles
  5. dissettling
  6. dissever
  7. disseverance
  8. disseverances
  9. disseveration
  10. disseverations
  11. dissevered

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dissever (page history and authors); dissever (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dissever (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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