Word Meanings - DISSEVERANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of disserving; separation.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DISSEVERANCE)

• Rupture
• Breaking
• bursting
• tearing
• laceration
• partition
• disruption
• breach
• dissolution
• fracture
• break
• severance
• disseverance
• discerption
• disorganization
• separation
• dilaceration
• dismemberment

Related words: (words related to DISSEVERANCE)

• TEAR
  A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moisten the parts and facilitate their motion. Ordinarily the secretion passes through the lachrymal duct
• BREAKMAN
  See BRAKEMAN
• BURSTEN
  p. p. of Burst, v. i.
• BURST
  berstan (pers. sing. berste, imp. sing. bærst, imp. pl. burston, p.p. borsten); akin to D. bersten, G. bersten, OHG. brestan, OS. brestan, 1. To fly apart or in pieces; of break open; to yield to force or pressure, especially to a sudden
• BREAKABLE
  Capable of being broken.
• TEARER
  One who tears or rends anything; also, one who rages or raves with violence.
• RUPTURED
  Having a rupture, or hernia.
• FRACTURE
  The breaking of a bone. (more info) 1. The act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach.
• TEARPIT
  A cavity or pouch beneath the lower eyelid of most deer and antelope; the lachrymal sinus; larmier. It is capable of being opened at pleasure and secretes a waxy substance.
• TEARY
  1. Wet with tears; tearful. 2. Consisting of tears, or drops like tears.
• BURSTER
  One that bursts.
• RUPTUREWORT
  Same as Burstwort. A West Indian plant somewhat resembling burstwort.
• BREAKAWAY
  A wild rush of sheep, cattle, horses, or camels (especially at the smell or the sight of water); a stampede. 2. An animal that breaks away from a herd.
• DISSOLUTION
  1. The act of dissolving, sundering, or separating into component parts; separation. Dissolutions of ancient amities. Shak. 2. Change from a solid to a fluid state; solution by heat or moisture; liquefaction; melting. 3. Change of form by chemical
• LACERATION
  1. The act of lacerating. 2. A breach or wound made by lacerating. Arbuthnot.
• BREAKDOWN
  1. The act or result of breaking down, as of a carriage; downfall. A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, as among the colored people of the Southern United States, and so called,
• RUPTURE
  Hernia. See Hernia. 4. A bursting open, as of a steam boiler, in a less sudden manner than by explosion. See Explosion. Modulus of rupture. See under Modulus. Syn. -- Fracture; breach; break; burst; disruption; dissolution. See Fracture. (more
• BREAK-CIRCUIT
  A key or other device for breaking an electrical circuit.
• BREAK
  brekan, D. breken, OHG. brehhan, G. brechen, Icel.braka to creak, Sw. braka, bräkka to crack, Dan. brække to break, Goth. brikan to break, 1. To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break
• BREAKER
  A small water cask. Totten. 4. A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a sand bank, or a rock or reef near the surface. The breakers were right beneath her bows. Longfellow. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, breaks. I'll be
• PERSEVERANCE
  Continuance in a state of grace until it is succeeded by a state of glory; sometimes called final perseverance, and the perseverance of the saints. See Calvinism. Syn. -- Persistence; steadfastness; constancy; steadiness; pertinacity. (more info)
• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• LAWBREAKER
  One who disobeys the law; a criminal. -- Law"break`ing, n. & a.
• SUNBURST
  A burst of sunlight.
• OATHBREAKING
  The violation of an oath; perjury. Shak
• PEACEBREAKER
  One who disturbs the public peace. -- Peace"break`ing, n.
• CLOUD-BURST
  A sudden copious rainfall, as the whole cloud had been precipitated at once.
• UPBREAK
  To break upwards; to force away or passage to the surface.
• PERBREAK
  See PARBREAK
• OUTBREAK
  A bursting forth; eruption; insurrection. "Mobs and outbreaks." J. H. Newman. The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind. Shak.
• PETROSTEARINE
  A solid unctuous material, of which candles are made.
• QUADRIPARTITION
  A division or distribution by four, or into four parts; also, a taking the fourth part of any quantity or number.
• REFRACTURE
  A second breaking by the surgeon.