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sever Verb

— If you sever something, you cut through or separate it completely. The man's arm was accidentally severed by a saw while he was working at the building. More than five decades after the U.S. and Cuba severed ties, the relationship may be on the mend.

sever

— verb set or keep apart sever a relationship — verb cut off from a whole His head was severed from his body The soul discerped from the body

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cut separate cut off split break off divide cleave chop interrupt disconnect tear break up part break slice shear clip carve amputate snap pluck lop detach cut out chop off terminate tear off sunder strip shorten shave rip off rend put an end to pierce partition nip intercept exterminate divorce disunite disperse discerp cut through cut short cut away untie unsolder unscrew unmuzzle

Topics sever topics

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Person Healthy Injure

Amputate

Conjugation sever conjugation

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sever · verb

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Only to find myself a fool and sever her chains, I might add.
If a blade passes through it like a finger through mercury, then like a river of mercury, we should be able to sever a part of it by completely separating it from the rest of the body.
Every few years having to sever all contacts, cut all traces.
I feel sure that if you were to sever your relationship with these two young women.
If we continue on our present course, we'll sever the monorail's supports.
Maybe. I don't want to sever a beautiful child like you right out.
If you tell them that you sever your ties with them once and for all, then all will be well!
And even though they petition for your return, it can be disregarded as long as you sever your ties with them.
Lady Ichi, will you sever your ties with them and save their lives?
I understand this is all too sudden for you to say yes right away, and that you need time to sever the temporary ties that bind you to temporary people.
So if you sever the jugular vein a swiftly beating heart will spurt out blood like a fountain.
He said it's not proper to sever a king's head.
Sever ship to short umbilicals.
Yes, sir. Sever ship to short umbilicals.
By not receiving the Crown Prince, you sever yourself from your people, whose hearts he has already won.
If what you say be true, the headsman's ax will not only rid us of this jabbering popinjay, but will sever this lovely little head from this delicate little neck.
There wasn't much to sever.
Gentlemen had previously fought vampires during the reign of Louis XV, but they neglected to sever the head from the body.
Now, sever the spinal cord.
But I had to sever her head from her body,.and I wasn't brave enough to do that.
I part the flaps, sever the inner tubes, yank them out, and throw them hot and steaming on the floor.
In one stroke, it'll cut across the enemy's rear, sever his supply lines and isolate all of his forces south of Seoul.
If then I must leave you and timorously avoid you, if you must sever what once linked us and cut off from yourself a half that once belonged wholly to you, do not forget that, O god!
We sought to sever his running from himself.
He writes that we have no right to sever the ties which bind us. that our life will have to go on as before.
And Boemondo's, spared by King Moro. He said it's not proper to sever a king's head.
One, a soldier shall sever his desires.
Sever guidance links, give me automatic control.
I fear that in your loneliness you may renew the bonds it helped you sever.
I'll sever this bond before it's too late.
I'm not asking you to sever all relations with the boy.
Is she the goddess that hath sever'd us, And brought us thus together?
Preparing to sever master alarm circuit.
I want you to sever your connection to your mother.
Deanna, you understand that if your paracortical readings get too high again I'm going to tell Maques to sever the connection?
Human. Sever spinal cord at third vertebrae.
When you enter the witness-protection program, you have to sever all ties.

News and current affairs

Indeed, in contrast to the United States, eurozone authorities were slow to consolidate the banking system after the global financial crisis erupted in 2008, and failed to sever the ties between sovereigns' and banks' balance sheets.
It took hard military power to sever that tie.
All attempts by the communist regime to sever the links between the Catholic Church and the Polish nation failed.
Yet in a speech soon thereafter, Assad warned that nothing could sever the Syrian-Lebanese relationship.
By endorsing such an initiative, the international community would demonstrate that it is in Afghanistan for the good of the local population, which would help farmers sever ties with the insurgency.
That global effort will almost certainly not succeed without a credible Chinese threat to sever Kim's economic umbilical cord.
The financial revolution that swept the world over the last two decades seemed to sever the link between representative government and public finance.
Pakistan's homegrown Islamist militias continue to operate openly, and the Pakistani army and intelligence remain loath to sever their cozy ties with extremist and terrorist elements.

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