DISSEVER

divide, split, split up, separate, dissever, carve up

(verb) separate into parts or portions; “divide the cake into three equal parts”; “The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Verb

dissever (third-person singular simple present dissevers, present participle dissevering, simple past and past participle dissevered)

To separate; to split apart.

To divide into separate parts.

Anagrams

• dervises, devisers, disserve

Source: Wiktionary

Dis*sev"er, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dissevered; p. pr. & vb. n. Dissevering.] Etym: [OE. dessevrer; pref. des- (L. dis-) + sevrer to sever, F. sevrer to wean, L. separate to separate. In this word the prefix is intensive. See Dis-, and Sever.]

Definition: To part in two; to sever thoroughly; to sunder; to disunite; to separate; to disperse. The storm so dissevered the company . . . that most of therm never met again. Sir P. Sidney. States disserved, discordant, belligerent. D. Webster.

Dis*sev"er, v. i.

Definition: To part; to separate. Chaucer.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition