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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of dissever.

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Examples

  • The repetition of Hewet's name in short, dissevered syllables was to them the crack of a dry branch or the laughter of a bird.

    The Voyage Out 1915

  • The repetition of Hewet's name in short, dissevered syllables was to them the crack of a dry branch or the laughter of a bird.

    The Voyage Out Virginia Woolf 1911

  • Spain was dissevered from the trunk of the monarchy, engaged in perpetual hostility with the East, and inclined to peace and friendship with the Christian sovereigns of Constantinople and

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • In the eleventh century, the prospect was again clouded by new enemies and new misfortunes: the relics of Italy were swept away by the Norman adventures; and almost all the Asiatic branches were dissevered from the Roman trunk by the Turkish conquerors.

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • The repetition of Hewet’s name in short, dissevered syllables was to them the crack of a dry branch or the laughter of a bird.

    The Voyage Out 2004

  • “Murmurs, discontent, insurrections, rebellion, would inevitably ensue,” with a likely result that “our present glorious Union itself would be dissevered or dissolved.”

    A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009

  • “Murmurs, discontent, insurrections, rebellion, would inevitably ensue,” with a likely result that “our present glorious Union itself would be dissevered or dissolved.”

    A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009

  • It marks the day that the Berlin Wall fell, 20 years ago this month, physically and symbolically uniting a dissevered nation.

    Stefan Sirucek: Remembering Kristallnacht in Berlin: The Story of Hans Riess 2009

  • It marks the day that the Berlin Wall fell, 20 years ago this month, physically and symbolically uniting a dissevered nation.

    Stefan Sirucek: Remembering Kristallnacht in Berlin: The Story of Hans Riess 2009

  • Now, coming up, the election cycle may be favoring the economy over illegal immigration as the most important issue, but in a minute, you want to try to piece together that illegal immigration cannot be dissevered from the economy.

    CNN Transcript Mar 11, 2008 2008

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