Associations to the word «Severing»

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

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats