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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sever" Quotes from Famous Books

... to solve the problem in a way that seemed to her very simple. Her mind had never yet bowed to any obligation apart from personal love and reverence; she had no keen sense of any other human relations, and all she had to obey now was the instinct to sever herself from the man ...

— Romola • George Eliot

... lay in the early sun, Stretched in the grass, I thought upon My true love, my dear love, Who has my heart for ever, Who is my happiness when we meet, My sorrow when we sever. She is all fire when I do burn, Gentle when I moody turn, Brave when I am sad and heavy And all laughter when I am merry. And so I lay and dreamed and dreamed, And so the day wheeled on, While all the birds with thoughts like mine Were singing to ...

— Georgian Poetry 1918-19 • Various

... once contemplate continuing his arrangements as if nothing had happened would not be true. All he had to do was to go. The thing was dishonest, clearly enough, but it was not his action. His original report would always be proof of his own integrity, and on his return he could sever his connection with the firm on some other pretext. On the other hand, to break his connection with Honaton & Benson, to force the suppression of the report unless given in full, to give up his trip, to ...

— The Happiest Time of Their Lives • Alice Duer Miller

... outer parts—weakens the force of the interruption, and transforms the cadence into a lighter, more transient, point of repose, for which the term semicadence (or half-stop) is used. The semicadence indicates plainly enough the end of its phrase, but does not completely sever it ...

— Lessons in Music Form - A Manual of Analysis of All the Structural Factors and - Designs Employed in Musical Composition • Percy Goetschius

... stands, and from which belated travellers stray into it, shows beyond mistake that you can't shut out the world; that you are in it, to be of it; that you get into a false position the moment you try to sever yourself from it; and that you must mingle with it, and make the best of it, and make the best of yourself ...

— The Letters of Charles Dickens - Vol. 2 (of 3), 1857-1870 • Charles Dickens

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