Found 2 items, similar to sever.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: sever sever v 1: set or keep apart; “sever a relationship” [syn: break up] 2: cut off from a whole; “His head was severed from his body”; “The soul discerped from the body” [syn: discerp, lop]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Sever Sever \Sev"er\, v. i. 1. To suffer disjunction; to be parted, or rent asunder; to be separated; to part; to separate. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. To make a separation or distinction; to distinguish. [1913 Webster] The Lord shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt. --Ex. ix. 4. [1913 Webster] They claimed the right of severing in their challenge. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] Sever \Sev"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Severed; p. pr. & vb. n. Severing.] [OF. sevrer, severer, to separate, F. sevrer to wean, fr. L. separare. See Separate, and cf. Several.] 1. To separate, as one from another; to cut off from something; to divide; to part in any way, especially by violence, as by cutting, rending, etc.; as, to sever the head from the body. [1913 Webster] The angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just. --Matt. xiii. 49. [1913 Webster] 2. To cut or break open or apart; to divide into parts; to cut through; to disjoin; as, to sever the arm or leg. [1913 Webster] Our state can not be severed; we are one. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 3. To keep distinct or apart; to except; to exempt. [1913 Webster] I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there. --Ex. viii. 22. [1913 Webster] 4. (Law) To disunite; to disconnect; to terminate; as, to sever an estate in joint tenancy. --Blackstone. [1913 Webster]