dissever Meaning, Definition & Usage
-
verb separate into parts or portions
divide; separate; split up; split; carve up.
- divide the cake into three equal parts
- The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I
WordNet
Dis*sev"er transitive verb
Etymology
OE.Wordforms
Definitions
To part in two; to sever thoroughly; to sunder; to disunite; to separate; to disperse. The storm so dissevered the company . . . that most of therm never met again. Sir P. Sidney.
States disserved, discordant, belligerent. D. Webster.
Dis*sev"er intransitive verb
Definitions
To part; to separate. Chaucer.