DISSEVER

 Dictionary entry overview: What does dissever mean? 

• DISSEVER (verb)
  The verb DISSEVER has 1 sense:

1. separate into parts or portions

  Familiarity information: DISSEVER used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISSEVER (verb)

Meaning:

Separate into parts or portions

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

carve up; dissever; divide; split; split up; separate

Context examples:

divide the cake into three equal parts / The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I

Hypernyms (to "dissever" is one way to...):

change integrity (change in physical make-up)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "dissever"):

subdivide (divide into smaller and smaller pieces)

canton (divide into cantons, of a country)

paragraph (divide into paragraphs, as of text)

sliver; splinter (divide into slivers or splinters)

parcel (divide into parts)

lot (divide into lots, as of land, for example)

unitise; unitize (divide (bulk material) and process as units)

triangulate (divide into triangles or give a triangular form to)

sectionalise; sectionalize (divide into sections, especially into geographic sections)

format; initialise; initialize (divide (a disk) into marked sectors so that it may store data)

Balkanise; Balkanize (divide a territory into small, hostile states)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something