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