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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
- Then why those severed arms and legs and those dead men?Book Five — 1806-07 (98% in)
- ..." said the same mob now, looking with pained distress at the dead body with its long, thin, half-severed neck and its livid face stained with blood and dust.Book Eleven — 1812 (63% in)
There are no more uses of "sever" in War and Peace.
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