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SEVERED
severed, cut off
(adjective) detached by cutting; “cut flowers”; “a severed head”; “an old tale of Anne Bolyn walking the castle walls with her poor cut-off head under her arm”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
severed
simple past tense and past participle of sever
Adjective
severed (not comparable)
separated, cut off or broken apart
Anagrams
• Veeders, deserve
Source: Wiktionary
SEVER
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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