Sample Sentences for
sever
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    She decided to sever ties with the company after years of disagreement.
    sever = end
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    The country threatened to sever diplomatic relations over the incident.
    sever = break off or end
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    ...and he drove the blade between the vertebrae and the brain. It was an easy shot now and he felt the cartilage sever.  (source)
    sever = split in two
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    A moment later I come across the source of the odor: a plastic garbage bag filled with feathers, down, and the severed wings of several birds.  (source)
    severed = cut off
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    I could sever the rope in one shot, didn't I do as much in the Training Center?†  (source)
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    SAEED AND NADIA WERE LOYAL, and whatever name they gave their bond they each in their own way believed it required them to protect the other, and so neither talked much of drifting apart, not wanting to inflict a fear of abandonment, while also themselves quietly feeling that fear, the fear of the severing of their tie, the end of the world they had built together, a world of shared experiences in which no one else would share, and a shared intimate language that was unique to them, and a sense that what they might break was special and likely irreplaceable.†  (source)
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    They were severally examined and appraised by old Joe, who chalked the sums he was disposed to give for each, upon the wall, and added them up into a total when he found there was nothing more to come.†  (source)
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    Shortly after Everett's disappearance his father suggested that the boy had probably been inspired to call himself Nemo by Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, a book Everett read many times, in which the purehearted protagonist, Captain Nemo, flees civilization and severs his "every tie upon the earth."  (source)
    severs = separates
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    This wandering race, sever'd from other men, Boast yet their intercourse with human arts; The seas, the woods, the deserts, which they haunt, Find them acquainted with their secret treasures: And unregarded herbs, and flowers, and blossoms, Display undreamt-of powers when gather'd by them.†  (source)
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    Whereas, failing in her first duty, she hath by that failure failed in all; for whoso, clinging to a rope, severeth it above his hands, must fall; it being no defense to claim that the rest of the rope is sound, neither any deliverance from his peril, as he shall find.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She severeth" in older English, today we say "She severs."
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    And Yossarian crawled slowly out of the nose and up on top of the bomb bay and 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 vomit.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unsevered means not and reverses the meaning of severed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Being raised as outcasts in a foreign land had woven an inseverable bond between them.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inseverable means not and reverses the meaning of severable. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    Jem sat from after breakfast until sunset and would have remained overnight had not Atticus severed his supply lines.  (source)
    severed = cut off
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