Both Uses
sever
in
1984, by Orwell
(Edited)
- When he got up to it he saw that it was a human hand severed at the wrist.
p. 84.5 *severed = cut off
- And in thinking this he remembered, without apparent relevance, how a few weeks ago he had seen a severed hand lying on the pavement and had kicked it into the gutter as though it had been a cabbage-stalk.
p. 165.6
Definitions:
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(1)
(sever) to end or cut off completely -- either physically or in relationships
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)