Diffuse and Sever

diffuse

Move outward.
- usage: "The soldiers fanned out"
- synonyms: spread, spread out, fan out
Spread or diffuse through.
- usage: "An atmosphere of distrust has permeated this administration"; "music penetrated the entire building"; "His campaign was riddled with accusations and personal attacks"
- synonyms: permeate, pervade, penetrate, interpenetrate, imbue, riddle
Cause to become widely known.
- usage: "spread information"; "circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news"
- synonyms: circulate, circularize, circularise, distribute, disseminate, propagate, broadcast, spread, disperse, pass around

Spread out; not concentrated in one place.
- usage: "a large diffuse organization"
Of light. ( transmitted from a broad light source or reflected)
- synonyms: soft, diffused
Lacking conciseness.
- usage: "a diffuse historical novel"

(v.i.) To pass by spreading every way, to diffuse itself.
(v.t.) To pour out and cause to spread, as a fluid; to cause to flow on all sides; to send out or extend, in all directions; to spread; to circulate; to disseminate; to scatter; as to diffuse information.
(a.) Poured out; widely spread; not restrained; copious; full; especially, of style, opposed to concise or terse; verbose; prolix; as, a diffuse style; a diffuse writer.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

sever

Set or keep apart.
- usage: "sever a relationship"
- synonyms: break up
Cut off from a whole.
- usage: "His head was severed from his body"; "The soul discerped from the body"
- synonyms: discerp, lop

(v.t.) To keep distinct or apart; to except; to exempt.
(v.t.) To cut or break open or apart; to divide into parts; to cut through; to disjoin; as, to sever the arm or leg.
(v.t.) To disunite; to disconnect; to terminate; as, to sever an estate in joint tenancy.
(v.i.) To suffer disjunction; to be parted or rent asunder; to be separated; to part; to separate.
(v.t.) 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.; as, to sever the head from the body.
(v.i.) To make a separation or distinction; to distinguish.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Sever is a masculine given name