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Chronic vs Sever - What's the difference?

chronic | sever |

In lang=en terms the difference between chronic and sever

is that chronic is marijuana, typically of high quality while sever is to disunite; to disconnect; to terminate.

As an adjective chronic

is of a problem, that continues over an extended period of time.

As a noun chronic

is marijuana, typically of high quality.

As a verb sever is

to cut free.

chronic

English

Alternative forms

* chronick (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of a problem, that continues over an extended period of time.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=8 citation , passage=It was a casual sneer, obviously one of a long line. There was hatred behind it, but of a quiet, chronic type, nothing new or unduly virulent, and he was taken aback by the flicker of amazed incredulity that passed over the younger man's ravaged face.}}
  • (label) Prolonged or slow to heal.
  • Of a person, suffering from an affliction that is prolonged or slow to heal.
  • Inveterate or habitual.
  • (label) Very bad, awful.
  • (label) Extremely serious.
  • (label) Good, great, as in "wicked".

    • Antonyms

    * (prolonged or slow to heal) acute

    Noun

  • (slang) Marijuana, typically of high quality.
  • (medicine) A condition of extended duration, either continuous or marked by frequent recurrence. Sometimes implies a condition which worsens with each recurrence, though that is not inherent in the term.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    References

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    sever

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cut free.
    • After he graduated, he severed all links to his family.
    to sever the head from the body
  • * Bible, Matthew xiii. 49
    • The angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just.
  • To suffer disjunction; to be parted or separated.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • To make a separation or distinction; to distinguish.
    • The Lord shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt. — Ex. ix. 4.
    They claimed the right of severing in their challenge. — Macaulay.
  • (legal) To disunite; to disconnect; to terminate.
    • to sever an estate in joint tenancy
    (Blackstone)

    Synonyms

    * becut * cut off

    Derived terms

    * severable * severally

    Related terms

    * separate

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