Both Uses of
sever
in
War and Peace
- Then why those severed arms and legs and those dead men?†
Chpt 5 *
- And there's another has been beaten too—they say he's nearly done for....Oh, the people...Aren't they afraid of sinning?" 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.†
Chpt 11
Definition:
to end or cut off completely -- either physically or in relationships