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Dissever vs. Sever — What's the Difference?

Dissever vs. Sever — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Dissever and Sever

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Dissever

Divide or sever (something)
A European tradition which had not been willing to dissever reason from the law of nature

Sever

Divide by cutting or slicing, especially suddenly and forcibly
The head was severed from the body

Dissever

To separate; sever.

Sever

To cut off (a part) from a whole
Severed the branch from the tree.

Dissever

To divide into parts; break up.
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Sever

To divide into parts; break or interrupt
Sever a cord.
Severed the army's supply lines.

Dissever

To become separated or disunited.

Sever

To break up (a relationship, for example); dissolve.

Dissever

To separate; to split apart.

Sever

(transitive) To cut free.
After he graduated, he severed all links to his family.
To sever the head from the body

Dissever

To divide into separate parts.
If the bridge is destroyed, the shores are dissevered.

Sever

(intransitive) To suffer disjunction; to be parted or separated.

Dissever

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.
States disserved, discordant, belligerent.

Sever

(intransitive) To make a separation or distinction; to distinguish.

Dissever

To part; to separate.

Sever

(law) To disconnect; to disunite; to terminate.

Dissever

Separate into parts or portions;
Divide the cake into three equal parts
The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I

Sever

To separate, as one from another; to cut off from something; to divide; to part in any way, especially by violence, as by cutting, rending, etc.; as, to sever the head from the body.
The angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just.

Sever

To cut or break open or apart; to divide into parts; to cut through; to disjoin; as, to sever the arm or leg.
Our state can not be severed; we are one.

Sever

To keep distinct or apart; to except; to exempt.
I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there.

Sever

To disunite; to disconnect; to terminate; as, to sever an estate in joint tenancy.

Sever

To suffer disjunction; to be parted, or rent asunder; to be separated; to part; to separate.

Sever

To make a separation or distinction; to distinguish.
The Lord shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt.
They claimed the right of severing in their challenge.

Sever

Set or keep apart;
Sever a relationship

Sever

Cut off from a whole;
His head was severed from his body
The soul discerped from the body

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