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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sever
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cut/sever ties
▪ He said that he planned to sever his ties with the club.
sever a connection (=break it)
▪ We cannot sever our connection with the past.
sever contact with sb (=refuse to have any contact with someone)
▪ After the divorce, she severed all contact with her husband.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
connection
▪ Meanwhile the Goldsmiths were taking steps finally to sever their connection with the School.
▪ People like him have severed all connection with the old rules.
▪ He had long ago severed the connection between the door and the interior courtesy light.
▪ It was as if the lithium severed that connection, or clouded it so much as to basically make it ineffective.
connections
▪ The rest of them felt his wife tried to sever all connections.
▪ People like me and the Ketterings have severed all connections.
head
▪ A local news agency said gangs paraded several severed heads around the town.
▪ A solid shot coming through the bow struck a gunner on the neck, completely severing head from body.
▪ Grasping the sword he swung and, with one blow, severed her head.
▪ They slew the gentle musician, tearing him limb from limb, and flung the severed head into the swift river Hebrus.
▪ Earl Seiguard, following tradition, severed the head, tied the bloody object to his saddle, and leapt aboard.
▪ After execution he carried his severed head to the site of the present basilica of St Denis.
▪ The engine passed over her, the wheels severing her head from her body.
▪ The novice promised the old master a fantastic tale about a severed head that talks.
link
▪ The Consolidated Capital Fund would sever the link between finance and accounting.
▪ The girls who join know that they are expected to sever their links with family and loved ones.
▪ However, I know I myself don't want to sever my links with the past.
▪ To cross them was to break tradition, to sever one's links and become an outsider.
▪ Hundreds of members of the 100,000-strong party backed Mr Alton and threatened to sever their links with the party.
▪ Its values now those of a specialist activity, design severs the communicative link which formerly bound it to society.
▪ Often this was easier after they had severed their links with the movement.
▪ The answer must be that it could not since the fact of adopting depreciation accounting severs the link with finance.
links
▪ However, I know I myself don't want to sever my links with the past.
▪ The girls who join know that they are expected to sever their links with family and loved ones.
▪ To cross them was to break tradition, to sever one's links and become an outsider.
▪ Hundreds of members of the 100,000-strong party backed Mr Alton and threatened to sever their links with the party.
▪ A part of her didn't want to; in some strange way it meant severing her links with Chris.
▪ Often this was easier after they had severed their links with the movement.
▪ If he did not, said Mr Deerey, he would move to sever all links between Chalmers and the party.
▪ Two years before the refinery became operational, however, Montevideo severed all links with Moscow.
tie
▪ Emily had taken her revenge swiftly, severing the ties that had long been between the Grenfells and the Morgans.
▪ Some 35 members voted to sever ties with the churches.
▪ Though geographical mobility is possible, to move means severing all the social ties which the miner has built up.
▪ The spokesman said no one called the Kings on Wednesday morning to sever ties with the team.
▪ You certainly appear to have reached a major turning point in your career and must now think about severing unprofitable ties.
▪ They planned to start by severing ties with the thrift industry.
▪ For what better way to sever an unwanted tie than by disappearing off on business for a couple of weeks?
▪ Louis Blues, they severed all ties with popular culture.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Britain immediately severed relations with the three countries involved.
▪ Doctors worked to reattach his severed finger.
▪ High winds severed power lines in many areas last night.
▪ Since the job required that he be politically neutral, he had to sever his links with the Socialist Party.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A local news agency said gangs paraded several severed heads around the town.
▪ Apparently forensic want to argue that the head was severed from the body after death.
▪ Both his legs were severed completely, the right one mid-thigh, the left up at the hip.
▪ By this time it was severed just around the corner from Staveley Town South Junction.
▪ Flesheating monsters and severed body parts dance through the pages as though daring the reader to read on.
▪ The price of such knowledge was scars, severed fingers, and burns.
▪ The ruling Kuomintang is desperately in need of reform, including rooting out blatant corruption and severing gangland ties.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sever

Sever \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.

Sever

Sever \Sev"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Severed; p. pr. & vb. n. Severing.] [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) To disunite; to disconnect; to terminate; as, to sever an estate in joint tenancy.
    --Blackstone.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sever

c.1300, from Anglo-French severer, Old French sevrer "to separate" (12c., later in French restricted to "to wean," i.e. "to separare from the mother"), from Vulgar Latin *seperare, from Latin separare "to separate" (see separate (v.)).

Wiktionary
sever

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To cut free. 2 (context intransitive English) To suffer disjunction; to be parted or separated. 3 (context intransitive English) To make a separation or distinction; to distinguish. 4 (context legal English) To disunite; to disconnect; to terminate.

WordNet
sever

  1. v. set or keep apart; "sever a relationship" [syn: break up]

  2. cut off from a whole; "His head was severed from his body"; "The soul discerped from the body" [syn: discerp, lop]

Wikipedia
Sever

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Usage examples of "sever".

I should hereafter act in contravention of this abjuration, I here and now bind and oblige myself to suffer the due punishments for backsliders, however sever they may be.

Gordon realized the improbability of this small abrasion severing the plastic.

Soul towards the higher, the agent, and except in so far as the conjunction is absolutely necessary, to sever the agent from the instrument, the body, so that it need not forever have its Act upon or through this inferior.

Reaching home after the flight from New Orleans, Sarchi grabbed her neuro anatomy text and read about the ansa lenticularis, the fiber bundle Latham was going to sever to treat Drew.

In her case, in addition to severing the fibers of the ansa, it was necessary to ablate some cells in the substantia nigra that were sending out conflicting signals.

And but a few months ago that assegai, which old Sigananda knew again, thrown by the hand of the Inkosazana-y-Zulu, drew blood from my body after the white man, Macumazahn, had severed its shaft with his bullet.

Had not a momentary impulse tempted me to sing my favorite ditty to the harpsichord, to beguile the short interval, during which my hostess was conversing with her visitor in the next apartment, I should have speeded to New-York, have embarked for Europe, and been eternally severed from my friend, whom I believed to have died in phrenzy and beggary, but who was alive and affluent, and who sought me with a diligence, scarcely inferior to my own.

Very few depict scenes of John being beheaded, or feature his severed head, for it is only in those places where he is particularly venerated that such imagery is deemed appropriate.

Dean clearly saw an armless man stumbling and screaming in the street, the severed brachial arteries pumping his blood away in bright spurts.

A wash of hot blood poured down the sword as I severed his brachial artery.

Quite similar fibrillar movements seem to be made by the tongue in bulbar paralysis, and in the case of dogs and guinea-pigs whose hypoglossus has been severed.

If coming out into civvies had been a shock to Dillon, it must have been traumatic for Harry, like being severed from the umbilical cord all over again.

He stared at the body of the young crofter, lying just outside the blackened door, the head half severed.

Caxton spent the war years in the States, he never severed his ties with a guy called Roger Dequoy, who was later identified as one of the worst collaborators in the art world.

At long last Ill be able to sever my connection with this dodgy family and return to a career which doesnt involve laundering money for the criminal underworld.