Synonyms for sever

Grammar : Verb

Spell : sev-er

Phonetic Transcription : ˈsɛv ər

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Définition of sever

Origin : c.1300, from Anglo-French severer, Old French sevrer "to separate" (12c., later in French restricted to "to wean," i.e. "to separare from the mother"), from Vulgar Latin *seperare, from Latin separare "to separate" (see separate (v.)).

verb cut apart
verb dissociate

Example sentences :

And do you think it will not cost me an effort to sever our friendship?
Extract from : « The Hunted Outlaw » by Anonymous

If you sever a number of these cords, you alter the entire drape of the curtain.
Extract from : « The Mystery of Murray Davenport » by Robert Neilson Stephens

Elizabeth I have put away––death could not sever us more effectually.
Extract from : « A Singer from the Sea » by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

There must be continuity of this structure too, for to sever a nerve is to paralyze all beyond.
Extract from : « The Machinery of the Universe » by Amos Emerson Dolbear

I am here to say this to you: here and now I sever our betrothal!
Extract from : « Pretty Madcap Dorothy » by Laura Jean Libbey

Let them bind in drink and sever in blood, for all that he cared.
Extract from : « The Flockmaster of Poison Creek » by George W. Ogden

Probably the two had their bickerings which did not sever love.
Extract from : « The Wild Geese » by Stanley John Weyman

His first impulse was to dash forward and sever the rope at one blow.
Extract from : « Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard » by Joseph Conrad

But Manor Cross was near the deanery, and he must sever his wife from her father.
Extract from : « Is He Popenjoy? » by Anthony Trollope

I sever dreamed that Charlie was the sort of man to get infatuated with anyone.
Extract from : « The Moon and Sixpence » by W. Somerset Maugham

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