Thesaurus / dissever
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But—and I forbear to lead up to it artistically—I dissever myself from your chariot wheels.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTONSo the man was able to dissever the ghastly head and thus to slay the monstrous dragon.
TALES OF FANTASY AND FACTBRANDER MATTHEWSSecrecy and guilt go so perpetually together, that it is almost difficult for the mind to dissever them.
THE DOCTOR'S WIFEM. E. BRADDONYou can dissever none of these facts one from the other, and we now approach the “one man principle.”
THE ARENAVARIOUSLike a white dove, the soul hovered for a moment above this body, of which the exhausted materials were about to dissever.
THE WORKS OF HONOR DE BALZACHONOR DE BALZACFrom this time the chief interest of his career lies in his judicial work, but he did not wholly dissever himself from politics.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 17, SLICE 5VARIOUSHe then corded it so firmly that it would require both industry and patience to dissever the several knots and twistings.
THE BUCCANEERMRS. S. C. HALLThe Muslim might dissever heads as carelessly as he plucked an orange, they were those of unbelievers, not of girls.
HISTORIA AMORIS: A HISTORY OF LOVE, ANCIENT AND MODERNEDGAR SALTUSFor himself, of course he loved knowledge; yet he would not dissever it from its value in the art of living.
THE MEDIAEVAL MIND (VOLUME II OF II)HENRY OSBORN TAYLORI had recourse to the expedient of spreading my letters on a dry towel and draining them before attempting to dissever the leaves.
LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE OF POPULAR LITERATURE AND SCIENCE, APRIL, 1876.VARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO DISSEVER
- abscind
- bisect
- branch
- break
- break down
- carve
- chop
- cleave
- cross
- cut
- cut up
- demarcate
- detach
- dichotomize
- disengage
- disentangle
- disjoin
- dislocate
- dismember
- dissect
- dissever
- dissociate
- dissolve
- disunite
- divorce
- halve
- intersect
- isolate
- loose
- part
- partition
- pull away
- quarter
- rend
- rupture
- section
- segment
- segregate
- sever
- shear
- split
- subdivide
- sunder
- tear
- unbind
- undo
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