sever
se ver
- v set or keep apart
sever a relationship - v cut off from a whole
His head was severed from his body
- Professor Peter Sever, an expert in clinical pharmacology at Imperial College London, says he has had several patients admitted to the hospital for severe bleeding, and that he .
- Sever that and we've severed what it is to be human.
- The agents, he says, also held a knife to his throat for hours, making small nicks and telling him to guess "when the blade might go all the way down and sever my head.