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Severed   /sˈɛvərd/   Listen
verb
Sever  v. t.  (past & past part. severed; pres. part. severing)  
1.
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. "The angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just."
2.
To cut or break open or apart; to divide into parts; to cut through; to disjoin; as, to sever the arm or leg. "Our state can not be severed; we are one."
3.
To keep distinct or apart; to except; to exempt. "I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there."
4.
(Law) To disunite; to disconnect; to terminate; as, to sever an estate in joint tenancy.


Sever  v. i.  
1.
To suffer disjunction; to be parted, or rent asunder; to be separated; to part; to separate.
2.
To make a separation or distinction; to distinguish. "The Lord shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt." "They claimed the right of severing in their challenge."





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"Severed" Quotes from Famous Books



... We severed in autumn early, Ere the earth was torn by the plough; The wheat and the oats and the barley Are ripe for the harvest now. We sunder'd one misty morning, Ere the hills were dimm'd by the rain, Through the flowers those hills adorning— Thou comest ...
— Poems • Adam Lindsay Gordon
... eat; and, wonderful as it may seem, his health did not suffer from all these horrors. As soon as he got a little accustomed to his cramped position, he began to use the knife he had left, and to cut through his chains. He next burst the iron band, and after a long time severed his leg fetters, but in such a way that he could put them on again, and no one be any the wiser. Nothing is more common in the history of prisoners than this exploit, and nothing is more astonishing, yet we meet with the fact again and again in their memoirs and biographies. Trenck ...
— The True Story Book • Andrew Lang
... I have," replied the fisherman, "and it's time for Pat to cut and run!" and so saying, his knife severed the rope, and with a Kilkenny grin, he sprang to his tiller, put his little craft before the wind, and bowled away from us, with some fifteen fathoms of ...
— Redburn. His First Voyage • Herman Melville
... and the men, in obedience to an order, dropped again behind the protecting stones to reply. As they did so, some of the officers of the Manchester, leaving their men in the security of the rocks, ran through the storm of lead and severed the wires obstructing advance. But the line was as yet too weak ...
— History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4) - Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government • Frederick Maurice
... and sang and rattled dice in their nightly carousal; and, in a corner, Lodin wrestled with the well-grown bear-cub before a circle of cheering spectators. The firelight flickered over the trophy-laden walls, picking out now a severed paw and now a grinning skull, until the whole place seemed ...
— The Thrall of Leif the Lucky • Ottilie A. Liljencrantz


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