Sever
['sevə] or ['sɛvɚ]
Definition
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To cut or break open or apart; to divide into parts; to cut through; to disjoin; as, to sever the arm or leg.
(v. t.) To keep distinct or apart; to except; to exempt.
(v. t.) To disunite; to disconnect; to terminate; as, to sever an estate in joint tenancy.
(v. i.) To suffer disjunction; to be parted, or rent asunder; to be separated; to part; to separate.
(v. i.) To make a separation or distinction; to distinguish.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Part, divide, separate, disjoin, disunite, sunder, detach, disconnect, disengage.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Separate, divide, disjoin, distinguish, part, discommunicate, sunder,disengage, detach, break, except, disconnect
ANT:Unite, conjoin, confound, confuse, amalgamate, associate, include, connect
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Definition
v.t. to separate with violence: to cut apart: to divide: (B.) to keep distinct.—v.i. to make a separation to act independently: to be rent asunder.—adj. Sev′erable.—n. Sev′erance act of severing: separation.
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Examples
- It might be 'sever,' or 'lever,' or 'never. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- But as I have found that to sever this strong bond would be to break her heart, I have long abandoned that idea. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- She was trying the separation--as that poor gentle Lady Jane Grey felt the edge of the axe that was to come down and sever her slender life. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I lifted up my head to look: the roof resolved to clouds, high and dim; the gleam was such as the moon imparts to vapours she is about to sever. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Something which is called mind or consciousness is severed from the physical organs of activity. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- By other means, a swing blade, for instance, the matches were all severed from the block. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- He was a vivisector, made sections of the brain in order to determine the funct ions of its parts, and severed the gustatory, optic, and auditory nerves with a similar end in view. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Then there is another class which is always being severed from the mass. Plato. The Republic.
- Under its crystal face appeared a curl of black hair, too short and crisp to have been severed from a female head. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Thus were we severed. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- From the rich cluster that filled a small basket held in her hand she severed a berry and offered it to his lips. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- A severing of communication with any part of the world will be impossible. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The captain, doing things that hurt sharply and severing tissue--Are you sure? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- A saw which planes, as well as severs, is shown in patents to Douglass, Nos. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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