Sever vs Unsevered - What's the difference?
sever | unsevered |
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.
Not severed.
*{{quote-book, year=1846, author=Henry Francis Cary, title=Lives of the English Poets, chapter=, edition=
, passage=It is delightful to see early intimacies thus enduring through all the accidents of life, local attachments unsevered by time, and the old age and childhood of man bound together by these natural charities. }}
As a proper noun sever
is .As an adjective unsevered is
not severed.sever
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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)
Synonyms
* becut * cut offDerived terms
* severable * severallyExternal links
* * *Anagrams
* * * ----unsevered
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Adjective
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