dis·sev·er

(dĭ-sĕv′ər)

v. dis·sev·ered, dis·sev·er·ing, dis·sev·ers

v.tr.

1. To separate; sever.

2. To divide into parts; break up.

v.intr.

To become separated or disunited.

[Middle English disseveren, from Old French dessevrer, from Late Latin dissēparāre : Latin dis-, dis- + Latin sēparāre, to separate; see separate.]

dis·sev′er·ance, dis·sev′er·ment n.

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disseverment

noun

The act or an instance of separating one thing from another:

detachment, disjunction, disjuncture, disseverance, disunion, division, divorce, divorcement, parting, partition, separation, severance, split.

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He who is taken out to pass through a fair scene to the scaffold, thinks not of the flowers that smile on his road, but of the block and axe-edge; of the disseverment of bone and vein; of the grave gaping at the end: and I thought of drear flight and homeless wandering--and oh!

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I am open to any other arrangement, but that would not intrude into the sovereignty...a disseverment of the Republic of the Philippines,' Duterte said during his trip to General Santos City on Monday.

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