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dissevering

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present participle of dissever

Synonyms & Antonyms of dissevering

to set or force apart

placed the dissevered pieces of chicken in the roasting pan

Synonyms for dissevering

Words Related to dissevering

breaking down,
decomposing,
disassembling,
disintegrating,
dissolving

bifurcating,
bisecting,
cleaving,
dichotomizing,
dissecting,
fractionalizing,
fractionating,
halving,
partitioning,
quartering,
segmenting,
subdividing,
trisecting

fragmentating,
fragmenting,
fragmentizing

breaking,
fracturing,
pulling,
rending,
rifting,
ripping,
riving,
rupturing,
tearing

cutting off,
insulating,
isolating,
secluding,
segregating,
sequestering

detaching,
disengaging,
disentangling,
unraveling,
untying
(or untieing)

Near Antonyms for dissevering

assembling,
associating,
blending,
combining,
mingling,
mixing

connecting,
coupling

accumulating,
agglutinating,
attaching,
binding,
cementing,
closing,
fastening,
fusing,
knitting,
sticking,
welding

Antonyms for dissevering

joining,
linking,
unifying,
uniting

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