different between dissever vs detach

English

Etymology

From Middle English disseveren, from Anglo-Norman desevrer, Old French dessevrer, from Vulgar Latin *diss?per?, diss?per?re, from Latin dis- + s?par?.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??s?v?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d??s?v?/

Verb

dissever (third-person singular simple present dissevers, present participle dissevering, simple past and past participle dissevered)

1. To separate; to split apart.

   • The storm so dissevered the company […] that most of them never met again.

   • 1946, Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy, I.16:

     Philosophers, Socrates continues, try to dissever the soul from communion with the body, whereas other people think that life is not worth living for a man who has ‘no sense of pleasure and no part in bodily pleasure’.

2. To divide into separate parts.

   If the bridge is destroyed, the shores are dissevered.

Related terms

• sever

Translations

Anagrams

• dervises, devisers, disserve

English

Etymology

From Old French destachier, from the same root as attach; compare French détacher and Portuguese and Spanish destacar.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /d??tæt?/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /d??tæt?/
• Rhymes: -æt?

Verb

detach (third-person singular simple present detaches, present participle detaching, simple past and past participle detached)

1. (transitive) To take apart from; to take off.

2. (transitive, military) To separate for a special object or use.

3. (intransitive) To come off something.

Synonyms

• (take apart from): disengage, unfasten; see also Thesaurus:disconnect or Thesaurus:deadhere
• (separate for a special object or use): allocate, earmark; see also Thesaurus:set apart
• (come off something): fall off

Antonyms

• attach

Derived terms

• detachable
• detachment

Translations

Anagrams

• Cath ed, cathed, chated, hectad