Broke off, as relations

Usage examples of severed.

After suffering each variety of insult and torture, his head was severed from his body, the mangled trunk was cast into the flames, and the same treatment was inflicted on the statues of the vain usurper, and the seditious banner of the green faction.

Zeid fell, like a soldier, in the foremost ranks: the death of Jaafar was heroic and memorable: he lost his right hand: he shifted the standard to his left: the left was severed from his body: he embraced the standard with his bleeding stumps, till he was transfixed to the ground with fifty honorable wounds.

From this disastrous moment, the life of Charles was a series of misfortunes: his capital was insulted, his son was made prisoner, and he sunk into the grave without recovering the Isle of Sicily, which, after a war of twenty years, was finally severed from the throne of Naples, and transferred, as an independent kingdom, to a younger branch of the house of Arragon.

We contemplate her fortunes, at first with admiration, at length with pity, always with attention, and when that attention is diverted from the capital to the provinces, they are considered as so many branches which have been successively severed from the Imperial trunk.

On the other hand, if the anterior roots are severed, the power of voluntary motion of the muscles is lost, but sensation remains.

The queen ordered the two males with the largest quantity of appropriate nutriments -- not very much unfortunately, though understandably -- to apply tongues to the cleanly severed stump, closing blood vessels against the future flow and depositing the nanomachines that would soon guide regrowth.

Occasional crashes continued to be heard as weakened or partly severed structural components failed.

The white and rooms around it were all smashed, and many supply lines to pink and blue were severed by shock.

The throat of the old lady was not merely cut, but the head absolutely severed from the body: the instrument was a mere razor.

With one determined sweep of its muscular arm it nearly severed her head from her body.

The sayce pushed into the severed branches that made up the walls of the path.

Gaping lacerations, severed limbsthey barely slowed the hostiles down as they emerged from the thick bushes to harass the party.

He had always wondered if the severed head retained a moment of confused consciousness as it fell into the basket.

The police found one beheaded corpse on the scene, and a severed arm with a gun still in hand.

He noticed that the undertaker had done a good job of concealing the fact that the head had been severed from the body, but otherwise the corpse looked more like a pope than Specklebird had ever looked while alive.