dissever Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. 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. dessevrer; pref. des- (L. dis-) + sevrer to sever, F. sevrer to wean, L. separate to separate. In this word the prefix is intensive. See Dis-, and Sever.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Dissevered ; present participle & verbal noun Dissevering
Definitions
  1. 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
  1. To part; to separate. Chaucer.

Webster 1913