Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: sever
IPA transcription: [s'ɛvɚ]
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: sever, break_up
    Meaning: set or keep apart; "sever a relationship"
  • Synonyms: discerp, sever, lop
    Meaning: cut off from a whole; "His head was severed from his body"; "The soul discerped from the body"
Usage examples
  • And I know that to do that I must sever my immediate connection with Nazareth Avenue Church.
  • It is no small sacrifice now for me, as a member of your Administration, to sever our political relationship.
  • He had determined to sever himself from Tifto, and, in doing that, had intended to sever himself from affairs of the turf generally.
  • But most of all I sever a personal association with you of the deepest affection which you know has meant much to me these past seven years.
  • Then laughed his heart; for the monster was minded, ere morn should dawn, savage, to sever the soul of each, life from body, since lusty banquet waited his will!