dissever \dih-SEV-uhr, verb:
to separate or part; sever
(Instead of writing my own sentence, I’ll use the one on dictionary.com because it’s beautiful).
He had contrived, or rather he had happened, to dissever himself from the world — to vanish — to give up his place and privileges with living men.
— T. J. Lustig, Moments of Punctuation’: Metonymy and Ellipsis in Tim O’Brien, Yearbook of English Studies, 1/1/2001
