SEVER

discerp, sever, lop

(verb) cut off from a whole; “His head was severed from his body”; “The soul discerped from the body”

sever, break up

(verb) set or keep apart; “sever a relationship”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Verb

sever (third-person singular simple present severs, present participle severing, simple past and past participle severed)

(transitive) To cut free.

(intransitive) To suffer disjunction; to be parted or separated.

(intransitive) To make a separation or distinction; to distinguish.

(legal) To disunite; to disconnect; to terminate.

Synonyms

• becut

• cut off

Anagrams

• 'verse, -verse, reves, serve, veers, verse

Source: Wiktionary

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Sev"er, v. t. [imp. &. p. p. Severed; p. pr. & vb. n. Severing.] Etym: [OF. sevrer, severer, to separate, F. sevrer to wean, fr. L. separare. See Separate, and cf. Several.]

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. Matt. xiii. 49.

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. Milton.

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. Ex. viii. 22.

4. (Law)

Definition: To disunite; to disconnect; to terminate; as, to sever an estate in joint tenancy. Blackstone.

Sev"er, v. i.

1. To suffer disjunction; to be parted, or rent asunder; to be separated; to part; to separate. Shak.

2. To make a separation or distinction; to distinguish. The Lord shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt. Ex. ix. 4. They claimed the right of severing in their challenge. Macaulay.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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