1. to separate or divide something, especially by cutting or breaking apart
Usage: formal; literary

Examples

• The surgeon carefully dissevered the damaged tissue from the healthy muscle.
• Time and distance had dissevered the once-close friendship.
• The earthquake dissevered the mountain road in several places.
• War dissevered families across the divided nation.
• The lawyer argued that the contract could not be dissevered into separate parts.
• Heavy flooding dissevered the town from the main highway.