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US
/ˈsɛvɝd/
]
[ UK /sˈɛvəd/ ]
[ UK /sˈɛvəd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
detached by cutting
a severed head
cut flowers
an old tale of Anne Bolyn walking the castle walls with her poor cut-off head under her arm
How To Use severed In A Sentence
- I even dragged my acrophobic mother up mountains in the Auvergne, only to leave her quivering halfway up while I persevered alone to the top.
- The bodies or severed heads of 67 "patients" lie in cryogenic storage at the site.
- `The knife severed the spinal cord just where it enters the medulla. WITHOUT REMORSE
- Could it be -- and the sudden thought stung him to the quick -- that she was deliberately and consciously degrading herself to what she knew was a lower plane of thought and life, that the bond of their older companionship might still remain unsevered? Phantom Wires A Novel
- The knife severed an artery and he bled to death.
- “Murmurs, discontent, insurrections, rebellion, would inevitably ensue,” with a likely result that “our present glorious Union itself would be dissevered or dissolved.” A Country of Vast Designs
- The sword wheeled and fell, and lo! the shield of the Saracen was severed in two. The Brethren
- Alfred persevered, first inventing the blasting cap and then discovering that a silicaceous earth, kieselguhr, would stabilize nitroglycerin, thus making dynamite. Nobel, Alfred Bernhard
- I slipped on the severed shank of a buffalo and fell hard into a ditch.
- The axis and the scales that have been severed from their apophyses (b) can be easily pushed out of the annulus (a), which is composed wholly of apophyses so firmly adherent that they will successfully resist a strong effort to break them apart. The Genus Pinus