[dɪˈsɛvə], (Verb)

Definitions:
- divide or sever (something)
(e.g: a European tradition which had not been willing to dissever reason from the law of nature)


Phrases:

Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘separate’): from Old French dessevrer, from late Latin disseparare, from dis- (expressing intensive force) + Latin separare ‘to separate’