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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