[每日] dissever (v) 使分離
Word of the Day (Friday December 5, 2008)
dissever \dih-SEV-uhr\, verb:
Pronunciation: http://0rz.tw/625af
to separate or part; sever
He had contrived, or rather he had happened, to dissever himself
from the world - to vanish - to give up his place and privileges
with living men.
-- T. J. Lustig, Moments of Punctuation': Metonymy and Ellipsis
in Tim O'Brien, Yearbook of English Studies, 1/1/2001
When Plato projected his ideal Republic, he made definite
provisions for a class of warriors. Thus one of the most
imaginatively creative men who ever lived, and the father of
Utopias, could not dissever himself sufficiently from his age
even to speculate upon a civilization which transcended war.
-- Robert F. Wagner, The Ideal Industrial Start, New York Times,
5/9/1937
It was thought that he intended to dissever the Union, and set
up an independent republic in the West with himself at the head.
-- Benson J. Lossing, LL.D., U.S. History
c.1250, from Anglo-French deseverer, from Old French dessevrer,
from Latin disseparare, from dis- + separare
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