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

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
Florence Scovel Shinn