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sever
in
The Old Man and the Sea
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- There were two from each bait he had severed and the two from the bait the fish had taken and they were all connected.†
p. 51.5
- ...and he drove the blade between the vertebrae and the brain. It was an easy shot now and he felt the cartilage sever.
p. 109.7 *sever = split in two
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)