· set or keep apart; "sever a relationship"
Synonym(s): break_up
Hypernym(s): separate, disunite, divide, part
· cut off from a whole; "His head was severed from his body"; "The soul discerped from the body"
Hypernym(s): cut
· detached by cutting; "cut flowers"; "a severed head"; "an old tale of Anne Bolyn walking the castle walls with her poor cut-off head under her arm"
Synonym(s): cut_off