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

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope