sever

(verb)

verb

1. set or keep apart

- sever a relationship

Definition categories: contact, disunite, divide, part, separate

2. cut off from a whole

- His head was severed from his body

Similar word(s): discerp, lop

Definition categories: contact, cut

Sentences with sever as a verb:

- After he graduated, he severed all links to his family.

- to sever the head from the body

- The Lord shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt. — Ex. ix. 4.They claimed the right of severing in their challenge. — Macaulay.