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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
- The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor.Adventure IX — The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb (97% in)
There are no more uses of "sever" in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
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