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Verb: sever  se-vu(r)
  1. Set or keep apart
    "sever a relationship"
    - break up
     
  2. Cut off from a whole
    "His head was severed from his body"
    - discerp, lop

Derived forms: severs, severing, severed

See also: severance, severing

Type of: cut, disunite, divide, part, separate

Encyclopedia: Sever