To sever the connection or association of; disunite or disconnect in any way; sever.To divide, place, or keep apart; cut off, as by an intervening space or body; occupy the space between: as, the Atlantic separates Europe from America.Synonyms To disjoin, disconnect, detach, disengage, sunder, cleave, distinguish, isolate.To dissociate.To part; be or become disunited or disconnected; withdraw from one another.To cleave; open; come apart.Divided from the rest; disjoined; disconnected: used of things that have been united or associated.Specifically, disunited from the body; incorporeal: as, the separate state of souls.By its or one's self; apart from others; retired; secluded.Distinct; unconnected.Individual; particular.An estate held by another in trust for a married woman.Synonyms Distinct, etc. (see different), disunited, dissociated, detached. See the verb.n. One who is or prefers to be separate; a separatist; a dissenter.n. A member of an American Calvinistic Methodist sect of the eighteenth century, so called because of their organization into separate societies.n. An article issued separately; a separate slip, article, or document; specifically, in bibliography, a copy of a printed article, essay, monograph, etc., published separately from the volume of which it forms a part, often retitled and repaged.