All 8 Uses of
sever
in
Harry Potter (#5) and the Order of the Phoenix
- Pressing her finger to her lips, she led him on tiptoe past a pair of long, motheaten curtains, behind which Harry supposed there must be another door, and after skirting a large umbrella stand that looked as though it had been made from a severed troll's leg they started up the dark staircase, passing a row of shrunken heads mounted on plaques on the wall.†
Chpt 4
- 'Its a figure of speech!' said Nearly Headless Nick, now so annoyed his head was trembling ominously on his partially severed neck.†
Chpt 11 *
- It may be that you are afraid to sever ties with Potter — / know that he can be unbalanced and, for all I know, violent — but if you have any worries about this, or have spotted anything else in Potter's behavior that is troubling you, I urge you to speak to Dolores Umbridge, a truly delightful woman who I know will be only too happy to advise you.†
Chpt 14
- — he checked Percy's letter — 'Oh yeah — "sever ties" with me, I swear I won't get violent.'†
Chpt 14
- A battered wooden sign hung from a rusty bracket over the door, with a picture on it of a wild boar's severed head, leaking blood on to the white cloth around it.†
Chpt 16
- Harry caught a glimpse of the Hog's Head down its side street, the severed boar's head sign creaking in the wintry wind.†
Chpt 24
- 'Diffindo!' yelled Harry, trying to sever the feelers wrapping themselves tightly around Ron before his eyes, but they would not break.†
Chpt 35
- He desisted only when his partially severed neck seemed about to give way completely.†
Chpt 38
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