Word.ws English Dictionary

disshiver

disshiver verb: (archaic) To break apart into pieces.

Verb

disshiver (third-person singular simple present disshivers, present participle disshivering, simple past and past participle disshivered)

  1. (transitive) (archaic) To break apart into pieces.
    • Disshiver'd spears and shields ytorn in twain.1859, George Gilfillan, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spencer, page 343

Forms of disshiver

third-person singular presentdisshivers
present participledisshivering
past participledisshivered
pastdisshivered

Questions about disshiver

What does disshiver mean?
Disshiver means (archaic) To break apart into pieces.
What part of speech is disshiver?
Disshiver is a verb.
What is the past tense of disshiver?
The past tense of disshiver is disshivered.

Words near disshiver in the dictionary

  1. dissheathing
  2. disship
  3. disshipped
  4. disshipping
  5. disships
  6. disshiver
  7. disshivered
  8. disshivering
  9. disshivers
  10. dissidence
  11. dissidences

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: disshiver (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “disshiver.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/disshiver. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.