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severed

[sev-er]

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verb (used with object)

to separate (a part) from the whole, as by cutting or the like.

to divide into parts, especially forcibly; cleave.

to break off or dissolve (ties, relations, etc.).

Law. to divide into parts; disunite (an estate, titles of a statute, etc.).

to distinguish; discriminate between.

verb (used without object)

to become separated from each other; become divided into parts.

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Origin:
1300–50; Middle English severen < Middle French sev(e)rer to separate

Related forms

half-sev·ered, adjective

un·sev·ered, adjective

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Modano suffered a severed tendon and nerve damage in his hand and has undergone reconstructive surgery.

The past means nothing, he averred, if severed from present and future.

Diplomats have been expelled, contacts between security services severed and visa restrictions imposed.

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Modano suffered a severed tendon and nerve damage in his hand and has undergone reconstructive surgery.

The past means nothing, he averred, if severed from present and future.

Diplomats have been expelled, contacts between security services severed and visa restrictions imposed.

Cut marks on the protruding neck bones probably indicate the head had been severed by a sharp obsidian knife.

Consciousness in his visual system seems to have been severed from that in his language system.

Bloodstains on the flies buzzing around the severed heads in the painting noted above are an example.

Some physicians present at executions by guillotine have testified that the severed head remains responsive for a brief while.

But students observing a turtle vivisection knew that the heart still expanded after the vena cava was severed.

It is a shame that for some this link is being severed.

In many patients, they sit there waiting to communicate-dangling telephone wires, severed from a handset.

Thus, they found that the clay pipe leading from my house to the city sewer line had been severed.

Later, it takes four straining warriors to carry his severed head.

The stab wound severed his spine and left him paralyzed and on a respirator.

We do spend time together, but my job is pretty severed from his life.

Severed limbs and torsos were scattered around the street by the force of the blast.

So far five cats have been found either missing limbs or severed in half.

Whenever a blood vessel is damaged, collagen fibers are exposed under the severed lining of the vessel.

The nylon webbing helps prevent a severed spinal cord in the event of traumatic deceleration.

The injury severed his spinal cord and left him unable to move his arms and legs.

Many people with severed spinal cords can create muscle commands in their brains.

Bishop's last bullet had severed his right optic nerve, blinding his right eye.

Their only hope was to use clips to close the open side of the severed vein, creating a working vessel for each twin.

Nissan, for example, severed its ties with suppliers that could not offer it lower prices.

The severed head of a calf gazed up from the doorstep.

Then he implanted the device into rats in which he had severed their nerves under anesthesia.

The dust clouds one blue eye as the severed doll's head stares up in the garage.

The bite was so bad that the puppy's tougne was severed halfway across and it's jaw was fractured.

His severed tongue and the bite marks on and through the upper and lower portions of his muzzle are healing nicely.

They then painstakingly grafted a piece of spinal cord taken from a fetal rat to connect the severed ends of the newborn's.

Among these severed appendages were those of children.

Blocked roads and bridges and severed phone and power lines have slowed the aid response.

Found in a tomb beside a decapitated body, the vessel may have served as a proxy for a head severed in a sacrifice.

When roots are compacted by heavy equipment or severed by trenching, chances are you won't see the damage immediately.

The researchers immediately placed the severed tails into a recording arena, as shown in the video below.

Biologists have regenerated tadpoles' severed tails by allowing a flow of sodium ions to reach injured cells.

The bullet severed the optic nerve in his right eye before shattering his jaw and then lodging in his neck near his jugular vein.

The severed body part is reeled onto the research vessel in the lower photograph.

Finally, imagine your child has had an accident and severed his/her spinal cord, rendering your child a quadraplegic.

Gibbs did more than that: he collected the severed body parts of his victims.

The ad shows an office worker munching on a chocolate bar which turns out to be the bloody severed finger of an orang-utan.

On the steps below the king lie the body of a dead captive and a severed head.

But he adamantly refused to go into the details of how he severed a tendon in his right pinky.

Yet such sensations offer confirmation that even when a limb has been severed or cut off from the nervous.

They also recovered one of the giant squid's two longest tentacles, which severed during its struggle.

When the plants fused, he severed the tomato root, leaving the.

The virtually severed hand appeared to be a tantalizing clue.

Mungiki recently stuck the severed head of one of their opponents on a post outside a chief's office.

There are many different versions of this parable of the severed ham, but the moral of the story is this:.

One of the chains linking the carts together severed and sent eight of them careening out of control to the bottom of mine.

Later on, the detainees were forced to kiss the severed head".

Even severed from nerves, it will continue to beat when placed in a bucket of correctly salted water.

Investigators found bone fragments the water bottle where he kept his severed fingers, and he also kept teeth.

Vesco, who severed his remaining links with the company last week.

Today, the country stands as a living testament to what happens when economic reform is severed from political transformation.

Last summer a bull shark was involved in a highly publicized incident in which a shark severed a young boy's arm.

His head was severed from the body by the rope as if by a guillotine.

Furthermore, when he severed the nerve connecting the gut and brain in a control group of mice, these neural changes disappeared.

Now corpses are being found in garbage cans, each corpse severed at the waist.

Matthew carried his brother and the severed arm home, where the boys' mother quickly put the arm in refrigeration.

The accident severed the lower part of her left leg and crushed her knee.

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Word Origin & History

sever

c.1300, from Anglo-Fr. severer, from O.Fr. sevrer "to separate," from V.L. *seperare, from L. separare "separate" (see separate).

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"If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword."

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