Word Finder - severed

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To cut free.

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After he graduated, he severed all links to his family.

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To suffer disjunction; to be parted or separated.

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To make a separation or distinction; to distinguish.

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To disunite; to disconnect; to terminate.

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to sever an estate in joint tenancy

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Separated, cut off or broken apart

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a severed limb

She expected Darkyn to have severed her ability to leave.

No one had a suggestion for the next step, but Fred was determined to continue to research the ownership of the severed digit.

Had it not been for the fact that the tree was almost completely severed from its trunk and had so much pressure on it from the opposite side, it would probably have been an impossible feat.

But there would have been a shorter severed piece, wouldn't there?

There was a reason he'd severed his connection to his emotions all those years ago.

Once cut, the farmer applies wax over the severed area to prevent disease such as fungus and mildew.

In 1849 he severed his connexion with politics and retired to the mission station at Hankey, Cape Colony, where he died on the 27th of August 1851.

No refund is payable if the produce was severed before the accident, unless the lessor was entitled to a portion of it, when he must bear his share of the loss, provided the lessee was not in morel as regards the delivery of the lessor's portion.

The ties which bound him to England were now severed, and his health was broken to such a discouraging degree that he determined to remove to another hemisphere.

Railways and material were destroyed, the country cleared of supplies, and the Confederate government severed from its western states.

Finally Christian III., an ardent Lutheran, ascended the throne in 1536; with the sanction of the diet he severed, in 1537, all connexion with the pope, introducing the Lutheran system of Church government and accepting the Augsburg Confession.

The spinal cord does not have to be severed in order for a loss of function to occur.

From the severed parts, which were thrown onto land, came the Gigantes, Erinyes and Meliae.

However, Aphrodite is also given as offspring of the sea and Uranus's severed member.

He did so and threw the severed member into the sea.

A vasectomy is a surgical procedure in which the vasa deferentia of a man are severed and sealed in a manner to prevent sperm from entering the ejaculate.

Virgo family roots run deep, and natives of this sign will do everything in their power to prevent them from being severed.

Unfortunately, Izzy could not handle this, and Ben severed ties with his son to save his marriage.

Fallen angels usually have a darker expression on their face, and they are often depicted with a severed or broken wing to show their lowered status.Who wears a fallen angel tattoo?

Halloween Ideas isn't all about crafts, but it does have some fun ideas for making your holiday a little scarier, from decorating with pumpkins to serving ice shaped like severed hands.

While the puncturing or eruption of the water or inserts is unlikely, it is possible that leakage can occur if the lining is severed with a sharp object or pressure is applied to the point of bursting.

The album was a flop and Warner severed their relationship with Raitt for good.

Consider picking up items like vampire coffins, severed heads and other body parts, frightening masks, witch's cauldrons and more.

This merchant sells disturbing party supplies, including severed limbs, a bowl of fingers, bats, fog machines, bloody tablecloths and lots more.

But during one battle, the One Ring was severed from Sauron's hand.

At the beginning of July the Russians, under Kamenskiy, were before Shumla; and a few days later the grand vizier and his army, their communications with the capital severed, were surrounded in the fortress.

Ancient oriental costume then cannot be severed from the history and development of thought.

These communications had been severed on the Ottoman Empire throwing its lot in with the Central Powers three months after the commencement of the struggle.

The bowl is now severed from its blowing iron and the unfinished wine-glass is supported by its foot, which is attached to the end of a working rod by a metal clip or by a seal of glass.

The bowl is severed from the blowing iron, and the wine-glass is sent to the annealing oven with a bowl, longer than that of the finished glass, and with a rough fractured edge.

After removal from the machine, the tumbler is severed from the blowing iron, and its fractured edge is trimmed.

Civilized Indians who have severed their tribal relations two years before an election are entitled to vote.

The severed part retains its muscular irritability for a short time, wriggling as if it were a living creature.

They were asserted in an extreme form in the Civil Constitution of the Clergy (5790),, Cwhich almost severed connexion between France and the papacy.

In the same year he severed his active connexion with St Bernard's.

The new law officer defended his conduct with the assertion that his alliance in politics had been with Mr George Grenville, and that the connexion had been severed on his death.

Layering consists simply in bending down a branch and keeping it in contact with or buried to a small depth in the soil until roots are formed; the connexion with the parent plant may then be severed.

The outer bark of each being removed, the two shoots are kept in contact by ligature until union is established, when the scion is completely severed from its original attachments.

If they spring from a thick root it is not to be wantonly severed, but the soil should be removed and the sucker taken off by cutting away a clean slice of the root, which will then heal and sustain no harm.

On the tree being lifted from its hole the roots should be examined, and all which have been severed roughly with the spade should have the ends cut smooth with the knife to facilitate the emission of fibres.

Some of them have an unquestionable resemblance to the pies, if the group now known by that name can be satisfactorily severed from the true Corvinae.

After the great ice cap had thawed and a period of general desiccation set in, the Caspian began to shrink in area, and simultaneously its connexions with the Black Sea and the Sea of Aral were severed.

It seemed almost as if his wits were sharpened into a keener edge by his very difficulties; but since he condemned on principle every war which was not strictly defensive, and it had fallen to his lot to guide a comparatively small power, he always preferred the way of negotiation, even sometimes where the diplomatic tangle would perhaps best have been severed boldly by the sword.

This excited vehement opposition among the Germans, on the ground that Holstein, although subject to the king of Denmark, was a member of the German confederation, and that in virtue of ancient treaties it could not be severed from Schleswig.

Encouraged by her, Hanover and Saxony had severed themselves from the Union, and Saxony, WUrttemberg and Bavaria arrived at an understanding as to a wholly new constitution.

William was grand duke of Luxemburg by a personal title, and his death severed the dynastic relation between the kingdom of the Netherlands and the grand duchy.

And in reality many pieces of the long suras have to be severed out as originally independent; even in the short ones parts are often found which cannot have been there at first.

On the other hand, in some neurons, after severance of the axon from the rest of the cell (spinal motor cell), the whole nerve cell as well as the severed axon degenerates, and may eventually die and be removed.

In the severed axon the degeneration is first evident in a breaking down of the naked nerve filaments of the motor end plate.

When, for instance, the axons of the ganglion cells of the retina are severed by section of the optic nerve, and thus their influence upon the nerve cells of the visual cerebral centres is set aside, the nerve cells of those centres undergo secondary atrophy (Gadden's atrophy).