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dissever verb [ dɪ(s)ˈsɛvə ]

• divide or sever (something).
• "a European tradition which had not been willing to dissever reason from the law of nature"
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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