All 5 Uses of
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Interview with the Vampire
- I saw a tiny glove on the door which was phosphorescent in the shadows, and for just a moment I thought it a tiny, severed hand.†
Part 1 *
- In those countries indeed they did burn the remains of the vampire when they found him, and the heart was staked and the head severed.†
Part 2
- I was seeing this woman in her grave with the head severed, and I was feeling the most keen revulsion inside myself, as if a hand were pressing on my throat and my insides were coming up inside me and I couldn't breathe.†
Part 2
- The host of vampires moved in the shadows, their candles whipped and fleeting on the cool air; and above them loomed a great broadcast of ink-drawn figures: the sleeping corpse of a woman ravaged by a vulture with a human face; a naked man bound hand and foot to a tree, beside him hanging the torso of another, his severed arms tied still to another branch, and on a spike this dead man's staring head.†
Part 3
- Like Claudia, severed from her mother, preserved for decades in pearl and hammered gold.†
Part 3
Definition:
to end or cut off completely -- either physically or in relationships