Sever vs Terminate - What's the difference?
sever | terminate |
To cut free.
* Bible, Matthew xiii. 49
To suffer disjunction; to be parted or separated.
To make a separation or distinction; to distinguish.
(legal) To disunite; to disconnect; to terminate.
To end, especially in an incomplete state.
* J. S. Harford
To kill.
To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire, lay off.
Terminated; limited; bounded; ended.
Having a definite and clear limit or boundary; having a determinate size, shape or magnitude.
(label) Expressible in a finite number of terms; (of a decimal) not recurring or infinite.
As a proper noun sever
is .As a verb terminate is
to end, especially in an incomplete state.As an adjective terminate is
terminated; limited; bounded; ended.sever
English
Verb
(en verb)- After he graduated, he severed all links to his family.
- to sever the head from the body
- The angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just.
- (Shakespeare)
- 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.
- to sever an estate in joint tenancy
- (Blackstone)