severed Meaning, Definition & Usage

1. verb set or keep apart
   sever; break up.
   
   • sever a relationship
2. verb cut off from a whole
   discerp; lop; sever.
   
   • His head was severed from his body
   • The soul discerped from the body
3. adjective satellite detached by cutting
   cut off.
   
   • cut flowers
   • a severed head
   • an old tale of Anne Bolyn walking the castle walls with her poor cut-off head under her arm

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