Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget

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.