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dissever

verb as in separate

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A whimsical ensemble drama, a dance performance and an online gallery show, it is so dissevered from the terrestrial that it melts into pixelated air.

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Inside the fishery, a half dozen cutters in white rubber boots and thick gloves wielded long fillet knives, quickly dissevering tubs of yellowtail.

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Greek culture had been the product of the city-state, and Hellenism could not be dissevered from the city.

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First it were a great shame, that a little money should dissever us twain, whom Nature hath knit so near together.

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It cannot accurately be described as an extension of our frontier, because it is dissevered from it by more than two hundred miles of difficult country.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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