Dissever

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /dɪˈsÉ›vÉ™/

Origin

From Anglo-Norman desevrer, Old French dessevrer, from Latin dissēperō, from dis- + sēparō.

Full definition of dissever

Verb

1. To separate; to split apart.
• Sir Philip SidneyThe 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’.
2. To divide into separate parts.If the bridge is destroyed, the shores are dissevered.

Anagrams

• devisers, disserve