Associations to the word «Sever»

Wiktionary

SEVER, verb. (transitive) To cut free.
SEVER, verb. (intransitive) To suffer disjunction; to be parted or separated.
SEVER, verb. (intransitive) To make a separation or distinction; to distinguish.
SEVER, verb. (legal) To disunite; to disconnect; to terminate.

Dictionary definition

SEVER, verb. Set or keep apart; "sever a relationship".
SEVER, verb. Cut off from a whole; "His head was severed from his body"; "The soul discerped from the body".

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky