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dissever
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)
- 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’.
- To divide into separate parts.
- If the bridge is destroyed, the shores are dissevered.
Related terms
- sever
Translations
Anagrams
- dervises, devisers, disserve
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sunder
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?s?nd?/
- Rhymes: -?nd?(?)
Etymology 1
From Middle English sunder, from Old English sundor- (“separate, different”), from Proto-Germanic *sundraz (“isolated, particular, alone”), from Proto-Indo-European *snter-, *seni-, *senu-, *san- (“apart, without, for oneself”). Cognate with Old Saxon sundar (“particular, special”), Dutch zonder (“without”), German sonder (“special, set apart”), Old Norse sundr (“separate”), Danish sønder (“apart, asunder”), Latin sine (“without”).
Adjective
sunder (comparative more sunder, superlative most sunder)
- (dialectal or obsolete) Sundry; separate; different.
Derived terms
- sunderling
- sunderly
Etymology 2
From Middle English sundren (“to separate, part, divide”), from Old English sundrian (“to separate, split, part, divide”), from Proto-Germanic *sundr?n? (“to separate”), from Proto-Indo-European *sen(e)- (“separate, without”). Cognate with Scots sinder, sunder (“to separate, divide, split up”), Dutch zonderen (“to isolate”), German sondern (“to separate”), Swedish söndra (“to divide”). More at sundry.
Verb
sunder (third-person singular simple present sunders, present participle sundering, simple past and past participle sundered)
- (transitive) To break or separate or to break apart, especially with force.
- (intransitive) To part, separate.
- 1881 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Severed Selves, lines 8-9
- Two souls, the shores wave-mocked of sundering seas: —
- Such are we now.
- 1881 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Severed Selves, lines 8-9
- (Britain, dialect, dated, transitive) To expose to the sun and wind.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
Derived terms
Related terms
- sundry
Translations
Noun
sunder (plural sunders)
- a separation into parts; a division or severance
- 1939, Alfred Edward Housman, Additional Poems, VII, lines 2-4
- He would not stay for me to stand and gaze.
- I shook his hand and tore my heart in sunder
- And went with half my life about my ways.
- 1939, Alfred Edward Housman, Additional Poems, VII, lines 2-4
Derived terms
- sundrous
See also
- sunder tree
Anagrams
- Durens, Dusner, drusen, nursed
Old English
Alternative forms
- sundor
- synder
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *sundraz, whence also Old High German suntar, Old Norse sundr.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sun.der/
Adverb
sunder
- apart, separate, private, aloof, by one's self
Synonyms
- ?ed?ledl??e
Derived terms
- onsundrum (“singly, separately, apart: privately: especially, in sunder”)
- sunderanweald m (“monarchy”)
- sunderfolgoþ m (“private office”)
- sunderfr?od?m, sunderfr?ols m (“privilege”)
- sunderl?pes (“separately”)
- sunderm?lum (“separately, singly”)
- sunderm?d f (“private meadow”)
- sunderst?w f (“special place”)
Related terms
- ?sundran, ?sundrian (“to divide, separate, disjoin, sever; distinguish, except. asunder”)
- ?syndrung f (“division”)
- sundrian (“to separate, sunder”)
See also
- sundor
- synder
References
- John R. Clark Hall (1916) , “sunder”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan.
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) , “sundor”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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