disassociation, disengagement; discontinuity &c 70; abjunction†;
cataclasm†; inconnection†; abstraction, abstractedness; isolation;
insularity, insulation; oasis; island; separateness &c adj.; severalty;
disjecta membra [Lat.]; dispersion &c 73; apportionment &c 786.
separation; parting &c v.; circumcision; detachment, segregation;
divorce, sejunction†, seposition†, diduction†, diremption†, discerption†;
elision; caesura, break, fracture, division, subdivision, rupture;
compartition†; dismemberment, dislocation; luxation†; severance,
disseverance; scission; rescission, abscission; laceration,
dilaceration†; disruption, abruption†; avulsion†, divulsion†; section,
resection, cleavage; fission; partibility†, separability.
fissure, breach, rent, split, rift, crack, slit, incision.
dissection anatomy; decomposition &c 49; cutting instrument &c
(sharpness) 253; buzzsaw, circular saw, rip saw.
separatist.
V. be disjoined &c; come off, fall off, come to pieces, fall to pieces;
peel off; get loose.
disjoin, disconnect, disengage, disunite, dissociate, dispair†;
divorce, part, dispart†, detach, separate, cut off, rescind, segregate;
set apart, keep apart; insulate, isolate; throw out of gear; cut
adrift; loose; unloose, undo, unbind, unchain, unlock &c (fix) 43,
unpack, unravel; disentangle; set free &c (liberate) 750.
sunder, divide, subdivide, sever, dissever, abscind†; circumcise;
cut; incide†, incise; saw, snip, nib, nip, cleave, rive, rend, slit,
split, splinter, chip, crack, snap, break, tear, burst; rend &c, rend
asunder, rend in twain; wrench, rupture, shatter, shiver, cranch†,
crunch, craunch†, chop; cut up, rip up; hack, hew, slash; whittle;
haggle, hackle, discind†, lacerate, scamble†, mangle, gash, hash, slice.
cut up, carve, dissect, anatomize; dislimb†; take to pieces, pull
to pieces, pick to pieces, tear to pieces; tear to tatters, tear
piecemeal, tear limb from limb; divellicate†; skin &c 226; disintegrate,
dismember, disbranch†, disband; disperse &c 73; dislocate, disjoint;
break up; mince; comminute &c (pulverize) 330; apportion &c 786.
part, part company; separate, leave.
Adj. disjoined &c v.; discontinuous &c 70; multipartite†, abstract;
disjunctive; secant; isolated &c v.; insular, separate, disparate,
discrete, apart, asunder, far between, loose, free; unattached,
unannexed, unassociated, unconnected; distinct; adrift; straggling;
rift, reft†.
[capable of being cut] scissile [Chem], divisible, discerptible†,
partible, separable.
Adv. separately &c adj.; one by one, severally, apart; adrift, asunder,
in twain; in the abstract, abstractedly.