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单词 dissever
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Definition of dissever in English:

dissever

verb dɪ(s)ˈsɛvədəˈsɛvər
[with object]rare
  • Divide or sever (something)

    〈罕〉分割;切断

    a European tradition which had not been willing to dissever reason from the law of nature

    一个不愿意将理性和自然法则分割的欧洲传统。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • ‘America’ remains a malaprop incapable of dissevering its rhetorical trusses to colonial discourse.
    • There were a lot of the fun things to be dissevered.
    • Uncannily, Wakefield ‘had contrived, or rather he had happened, to dissever himself from the world - to vanish - to give up his place and privileges with living men, without being admitted among the dead’.
    • It made sense to her, considering that most of her friends, besides Evie, were men and she didn't want to be dissevered from her closest acquaintances.
    • 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.
    Synonyms
    cut off, chop off, lop off, hack off, cleave, hew off, shear off, slice off, split

Derivatives

  • disseverance

  • noun dɪ(s)ˈsɛv(ə)rənsdəˈsɛv(ə)rəns
    rare
    • The disseverance of the operative from the speculative element of Freemasonry occurred at the beginning of the eighteenth century.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The relation of disseverance and unification is itself distorted.
  • disseverment

  • noun
    rare
    • This is an instance of a very early stage of the apparent disseverment of an atoll.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • This has been accomplished by design through our government schools and the incremental disseverment of the People's sovereignty.

Origin

Middle English (in the sense 'separate'): from Old French dessevrer, from late Latin disseparare, from dis- (expressing intensive force) + Latin separare 'to separate'.

Definition of dissever in US English:

dissever

verbdəˈsevərdəˈsɛvər
[with object]rare
  • Divide or sever (something)

    〈罕〉分割;切断

    a European tradition which had not been willing to dissever reason from the law of nature

    一个不愿意将理性和自然法则分割的欧洲传统。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • 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.
    • Uncannily, Wakefield ‘had contrived, or rather he had happened, to dissever himself from the world - to vanish - to give up his place and privileges with living men, without being admitted among the dead’.
    • There were a lot of the fun things to be dissevered.
    • It made sense to her, considering that most of her friends, besides Evie, were men and she didn't want to be dissevered from her closest acquaintances.
    • ‘America’ remains a malaprop incapable of dissevering its rhetorical trusses to colonial discourse.
    Synonyms
    cut off, chop off, lop off, hack off, cleave, hew off, shear off, slice off, split

Origin

Middle English (in the sense ‘separate’): from Old French dessevrer, from late Latin disseparare, from dis- (expressing intensive force) + Latin separare ‘to separate’.

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