5 uses
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Definition
to split something into two unconnected parts — usually by cutting
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to break up or end a relationship; or to separate from something
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to break up or end a relationship; or to separate from something
- Thus was I severed from Bessie and Gateshead; thus whirled away to unknown, and, as I then deemed, remote and mysterious regions.Chapter 5 (10% in)
- I believe he is of mine; — I am sure he is — I feel akin to him — I understand the language of his countenance and movements: though rank and wealth sever us widely, I have something in my brain and heart, in my blood and nerves, that assimilates me mentally to him.Chapter 17 (71% in)
- "Now is my time to slip away," thought I: but the tones that then severed the air arrested me.Chapter 17 (95% in)
- Am I severed from you by insuperable obstacles?Chapter 25 (84% in)
- I lifted up my head to look: the roof resolved to clouds, high and dim; the gleam was such as the moon imparts to vapours she is about to sever.Chapter 27 (89% in)
There are no more uses of "sever" in Jane Eyre.
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