VERB
  1. separate into parts or portions
    divide the cake into three equal parts
    The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I
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How To Use dissever In A Sentence

  • “Murmurs, discontent, insurrections, rebellion, would inevitably ensue,” with a likely result that “our present glorious Union itself would be dissevered or dissolved.” A Country of Vast Designs
  • It will be seen, in fine, that in the main Obermüller does not differ from accepted theories in German ethnology, which have long carefully dissevered the Celts from the Teutons, and assigned to each tribe with approximate accuracy its earliest fixed abode in Europe. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873
  • The repetition of Hewet’s name in short, dissevered syllables was to them the crack of a dry branch or the laughter of a bird. The Voyage Out
  • There were a lot of the fun things to be dissevered.
  • The overall aim is sustainable pulsing - swarm networks must be able to coalesce rapidly and stealthily on a target, then dissever and redisperse, immediately ready to recombine for a new pulse.
  • And then he bade the youngest son dissever every one from other, and break everych by himself. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
  • He dissevered branches from the stem.
  • Spain was dissevered from the trunk of the monarchy, engaged in perpetual hostility with the East, and inclined to peace and friendship with the Christian sovereigns of Constantinople and The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • The repetition of Hewet's name in short, dissevered syllables was to them the crack of a dry branch or the laughter of a bird. The Voyage Out
  • ‘America’ remains a malaprop incapable of dissevering its rhetorical trusses to colonial discourse.
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