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v. To set or keep apart; divide or separate.

v. To cut off (a part) from a whole.

v. To break up (a relationship, for example); dissolve. See Synonyms at separate.

verb-intransitive. To become cut or broken apart.

verb-intransitive. To become separated or divided from each other.

v. To cut free.

v. To suffer disjunction; to be parted or separated.

v. To make a separation or distinction; to distinguish.

v. To separate, as one from another; to cut off from something; to divide; to part in any way, especially by violence, as by cutting, rending, etc..

v. To cut or break open or apart; to divide into parts; to cut through; to disjoin.

v. To keep distinct or apart; to except; to exempt.

v. To disunite; to disconnect; to terminate.

verb-intransitive. To suffer disjunction; to be parted, or rent asunder; to be separated; to part; to separate.

verb-intransitive. To make a separation or distinction; to distinguish.

To separate; part; put or keep distinct or apart.

To part, sunder, or divide; separate into two or more parts: as, to sever the body or the arm at a single stroke.

To separate from the rest: said of a part with reference to the whole or main body of anything: as, to sever the head from the body.

To separate; disjoin; referring to things that are distinct but united by some tie.

To distinguish; discriminate; know apart.

In law, to disunite; disconnect; part possession of.

To separate; part; go asunder: move apart.

To make a separation or distinction; distinguish.

To act separately or independently.

v. set or keep apart

v. cut off from a whole

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disunite    separate    divide    part    cut   

separate   

disjoin    except    exempt    disunite    disconnect    terminate    part    separate    distinguish    divide   

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