All 3 Uses of
sever
in
Catch-22
- Hungry Joe was a jumpy, emaciated wretch with a fleshless face of dingy skin and bone and twitching veins squirming subcutaneously in the blackened hollows behind his eyes like severed sections of snake.†
Chpt 6 *
- …wriggled back into the rear section of the plane — passing the first-aid kit on the way that he had to return for — to treat Snowden for the wrong wound, the yawning, raw, melon-shaped hole as big as a football in the outside of his thigh, the unsevered, blood-soaked muscle fibers inside pulsating weirdly like blind things with lives of their own, the oval, naked wound that was almost a foot long and made Yossarian moan in shock and sympathy the instant he spied it and nearly made him…†
Chpt 30
- Yossarian kept cutting through the coveralls to the bottom and peeled open the severed leg of the garment.†
Chpt 41
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