All 4 Uses of
sever
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- Absence severs as well as death, and if the walls of a prison were between Edmond and Mercedes they would be as effectually separated as if he lay under a tombstone.†
Chpt 3-4
- He then bent his body, and by a desperate effort severed the cord that bound his legs, at the moment when it seemed as if he were actually strangled.†
Chpt 22-23 *
- While the rest slept, then, we went away a short distance; we severed our fetters with a file the Englishman had given us, and swam away.†
Chpt 81-82
- "Oh, why is not the world a wilderness?" she exclaimed, throwing herself into the arms of Mademoiselle d'Armilly, her eyes sparkling with the same kind of rage which made Nero wish that the Roman world had but one neck, that he might sever it at a single blow.†
Chpt 97-98
Definition:
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(sever) to split something into two unconnected parts -- usually by cutting
or:
to break up or end a relationship; or to separate from something