Sever

Definition: Sever

Sever

Verb

1. Set or keep apart; "sever a relationship".

2. Cut off from a whole; "His head was severed from his body".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sever" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Sever

Disjunction

Sunder, divide, subdivide, sever, dissever, abscind; circumcise; cut; incide, incise; saw, snip, nib, nip, cleave, rive, rend, slit, split, splinter, chip, crack, snap, break, tear, burst; rend; rend asunder, rend in twain; wrench, rupture, shiver, cranch, crunch, craunch, chop; cut up, rip up; hack, hew, slash; whittle; haggle, hackle, discind, lacerate, scamble, mangle, gash, hash, slice.

Crosswords: Sever

Czech (north), Romanian (austere, close, dour, drastic, exacting, firm, frowning, grim, hard, harsh, keen, narrow, rigid, rigidly, rigorous, rugged, severe, stern, Strait, strict, unrelenting), Serbo-Croatian (north), Turkish (lover, Phil, phil-, phile, philo-, spirited).

Because they are only fit to sever the bull necks of their countrymen with a butcher's cleaver (The Private Life of Henry VIII; writing credit: Lajos Biró; Arthur Wimperis)

Love is the only evil seed that could sever (I Cry; performing artist: Ja Rule)

I sever between you and me (Don'T Look Too Far; performing artist: Them)

Sever do Vouga... Uma Experiência (1971)

Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002)

Jugoslovenski Sever i Jug (1983)

Çirkinler de sever (1982)

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Books

• Cleanup and Decommissioning of a Nuclear Reactor After a Sever Accident (Technical Report, No 346) (reference)

• Names and personal detail of Australian and New Zealand soldiers killed in action, 1917 and who are buried in the Hooge Crater Cemetery, Zillebeke, Belgium, and the St. Sever Cemetery extension, Rouen, France (reference)

• Psychotherapy of Preoedipal Conditions: Schizophrenia and Sever Character Disorders (reference)

• Sever Buriatii (reference)

• Sever Pop, sa vie et moments de l'historique de l'Atlas linguistique roumain, sine ira et studio (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (reference)

• Ballistic - Ecks vs. Sever (reference)

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Music

• Sever (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Ecks vs Sever (reference)

• BIZTALK SEVER PARTNER 2002 (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Marburg virus, first recognized in 1967, causes a sever type of hemorrhagic fever, which affects humans, as well as non-human primates. Credit: CDC.

Sever water erosion on a farm during the Dust Bowl. Credit: Unknown.

Wreck of USS Chauncey (DD-296) near shore, during salvage operations some time after 8 September 1923, when she went aground on Honda Point with six other destroyers. Sheer legs are rigged atop her galley deckhouse to assist in removing items from the ship. Her midships 4"/50 guns have already been sent ashore. The wreck of USS Woodbury (DD-309) is in the middle distance. Photographed by Sever. Credit: NAVY.

Sugar house on Walter Gaylord's farm. Mad River Valley, Vermont. Making syrup on King evaporator. He averages about 150 gallons of syrup annually this year tapped only 600 out of his 1000 trees because of unusually deep snow and late spring. He owns sever. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Sever infections of the central nervous systems or lining of the heart may occur. (references)

In the procedure, doctors try to locate and selectively sever overactivated nerves controlling leg muscles. (references)

Business

At the University level, Kuwait's education system has come under sever pressure from increasing numbers of qualified graduates seeking to pursue their higher education. (references)

When most countries restructure, they sever the relationship between transmission and generation due to the belief that “the system operator should not own the generation assets it dispatches in order to avoid a conflict of interest. (references)

These measures are expected to introduce new operations and funding mechanisms for medical institutions, break up monopolies and install a competition mechanism among and within hospitals, sever economic ties between hospitals and pharmaceutical sales companies, rationalize prices for medical services and further advance pharmaceutical and healthcare reform. (references)

Civil Liberties

Paraguay

In June the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) petitioned President Gonzalez Macchi to intervene in the case of journalist Sever del Puerto. (references)

Singapore

They must renounce communism, sever all organizational ties with the CPM, and pledge not to engage in activities prejudicial to the State's internal security. (references)

India

He said that "they should sever their links with the Mecca and the Pope and instead become swadeshi." Catholics took special exception to this; the Archbishop of Delhi pointed out that the Indian Christian church is 2,000 years old (traditionally dating from the Apostle Thomas), and that although the spiritual head was the Pope, the day-to-day administration of the church was entirely in Indian hands. (references)

Economic History

Tunisia

Libya's 1985 expulsion of Tunisian workers and military threats led Tunisia to sever relations. (references)

Guinea

The presidential election of December 1998 represented an improvement on past performance and was judged legitimate by regional and international observers with no sever violence reported. (references)

Worker Rights

India

Central unions have stressed their independence and in some cases are attempting to sever previously tight party control. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "sever": sever a beam ♦ sever relations. Additional references.

Beginning with "sever": Sever-i.

Containing "sever": Saint-sever-de-rustan.

Albanian

pres (amputate, anticipate, await, be asking for, be expecting, be on the watch, be waiting, bide, buck, chop, clip, coin, cut, cut away, cut open, detruncate, disforest, dissect, entertain, expect, exscind, fell, hew, host, knife, look for, look forward to, mince, mint, Nick, notch, obtruncate, poll, prune, screw, section, shut off, sit on the fence, slash, slot, snip, take, Tarry, undercut, wait, ween, whack), ndaj (allot, apportion, at, bar, by, come between, cut, detach, disarticulate, disembody, disjoin, disjoint, dismember, dispart, dissever, dissociate, distinguish, distribute, disunite, divide, divorce, divvy, fissure, fractionate, grade, hand out, joint, on, part, partition, reconcile, rope off, section, segregate, separate, share, sort out, space, split, sunder, toward, towards, unjoint, unlink, unscramble, unto, winnow), copëtoj (break, break in pieces, chop, crack up, cut to pieces, cut up, disintegrate, dismember, dissect, fissure, fragment, joint, mangle, maul, rend, rip up, sunder). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فصل (adjudge, adjudicate, arrive at a resolution, break, break up, cashier, cut, cut off, decide, decision, demarcation, detach, detail, determine, discharge, disconnect, disconnection, disentangle, disjoin, disjunction, dismiss, displace, displacement, dissociate, dissociate oneself from, dissociation, disunite, divide, division, elaborate, expel, fire, have a final word, isolate, isolation, itemize, judge, lay off, make a decision, part, particularize, parting, partition, remove, render a judgement, resolve, sack, seclude, seclusion, segregate, segregation, separate, separation, set apart, settle, severance, sunder, wean), ‏مزق (cut up, disrupt, fracture, jag, lacerate, pull apart, pull to pieces, quarter, rend, rent, rip, rip apart, rive, rupture, shred, tatter, tear, tear to pieces, tear up, unrip, unseam), ‏قطع (amputate, amputation, ax, axe, break, cease, cessation, chop off, chopping off, cross, crossing, cut, cut across, cut away, cut down, cut off, cut out, cutoff, cutting off, disconnect, discontinuance, discontinue, divide, dividing, end, exchange, fell, felling, forbid, halt, hew, hinder from, interrupt, intersect, lop, prevent from, scission, section, segment, segmentation, separate, severance, slit, split, stop, sunder, suspend, suspension, tear, terminate, traverse), ‏إنفصل (become airborne, break away, break up, break with, dissociate, dissociate oneself from, estrange, segment, separate, split up, sunder, tear oneself away), ‏إنقطع (break off, cease, devote, rupture, stop). (various references)

Bulgarian 

скъсвам (break, fail, plough, pluck, refer, rend, rip down, rip open, rupture, snap, strand, tear, tear away, tear down, tear off, tear out, wear out), разлъчвам (divorce), разделям (break up, come between, disconnect, dispart, dissever, disunite, divide, divorce, divvy, lot, parcel out, part, partition, plot, portion, segment, segregate, separate, share, slice, split, split up, sunder, uncouple, unjoin, win away), отрязвам (amputate, crop, cut away, cut off, excise, exscind, intercept, lop, nip off, shear, slice off, snip off, take off), отделям (abstract, cull, detach, discharge, disestablish, disjoin, dissever, disunite, educe, eject, eliminate, emit, estrange, evolve, excrete, exhale, extricate, exude, insulate, isolate, lay aside, part, prescind, pry, screen, seclude, secrete, segregate, separate, sequester, set apart, set off, sort, spare, tear away, unfix, unjoin, unyoke), прерязвам (nip). (various references)

Chinese 

斷絕 (break off), 切断 (Mutilate, Mutilated, Mutilating, Mutilation, severance, severed, severing). (various references)

Czech

roztít (cleave), rozdvojit, odseknout (chop off, cut away, hack off, retort), odlouèit se (secede), oddìlit (detach, disjunct, dispart, fractionate, mark off, part, partition, scorify, segregate, separate, sequester, split off). (various references)

Farsi 

منفصل کردن (Expel), جداکردن (Abrupt, Abstract, Amputate, Analyze, Calve, Chop, Cleave, Cutoff, Detach, Disconnect, Dissociate, Disunite, Divide, Drawoff, Insulate, Intercept, Part, Partition, Rive, Rupture, Select, Separate, Sequester, Try, Uncouple, Unlink, Untwist, Unzip), بریدن (Amputate, Carve, Chop, Cut, Cutback, Cutoff, Dock, Gash, Hack, Haggle, Hew, Intercept, Mangle, Rase, Rift, Sect, Shear, Slice, Sliver, Stag, Stump, Sunder, Whittle). (various references)

Finnish

katkaista välinsä jonkun kanssa (sever connections with .). (various references)

French

se dissocier, trancher (settle), rompre (separate), interrompre, intense, découdre (separate), déchirer, couper. (various references)

German

abbrechen (abbort, abort, break, break away, break off, breakups, call off, cancel, demolish, discontinue, shear off, snap off, split off, stop, strike, tear down, terminate, to abort, to break away, to break off, to cut short, to discontinue, to dismantle, to sever, to tear down, to truncate). (various references)

Greek 

κόβω (carve, chop, clip, cut, cut down, cut out, fell, nip, pluck, shear, slacken). (various references)

Hebrew 

לקטום (lop off, truncate), לחתוך (cut, gash, incise, intersect, jag, scotch, slash), להפריד (dissociate oneself from, divide, mark off, part, separate, set apart, sunder, uncouple), לגדום (amputate, cut, cut off, stump), לנתק (break, cut off, detach, disconnect, disengage, divorce, isolate, sunder, uncouple, uproot). (various references)

Hungarian

kettéválaszt (to sever), elválaszt (detach, disembody, dissever, divorce, isolate, part, separate, sunder, to detach, to dissever, to divide, to divorce, to part, to section out, to separate, to sequester, to sever, to sunder, to uncouple, unjoin). (various references)

Italian

staccarsi (secede, tear away), separarsi (divide, part, separate, split), disgiungere (disjoin, disjoint, separate). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

絶つ (to abstain from, to cut off, to sever, to suppress), 断つ (to abstain from, to cut off, to sever, to suppress). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たつ (dragon, fifth sign of Chinese zodiac, promoted rook, to abstain, to be built, to be erected, to cut, to cut off, to depart, to erect, to initiateaction, to lapse, to pass, to rise up, to sever, to stand, to suppress), たちきる (to block, to break off, to cut, to cut asunder, to cut off, to disconnect, to sever), きる (to be through, to behead, to break off, to carve, to chop, to clip, to complete, to cross, to cut, to cut down, to disconnect, to discount, to fell, to finish, to hang up, to hash, to murder, to pause, to punch, to put on, to saw, to sell below cost, to sever, to shakeoff, to shear, to slice, to strip, to turn off, to wear), さく (a harvest, a work, cord, crossout, curtail, fence, last, paling, pare, plan, plane, policy, reduce, rope, scrape off, sharpen, shave, to alienate, to avoid, to bloom, to cede, to cleave, to cut up, to divide, to separate, to sever, to spare, to split, to tear, whittle, yesterday), れんらくをたつ (to sever the connection), えんをきる (to get a divorce, to sever connections). (various references)

Korean 

절단하으십시요. (various references)

Manx

scarrey (alienate, alienation, break away, break off, break up, come away, detach, detachment; spread, disconnect, disengage, disjoin, disjunction, dissociate, dissociation, distinguish, disunion, disunite, diverge, divergence, divide, divorce, draw apart; spacing, insulation, leaving, part, part with, parting, relinquish, schism, secede, secession, segment, segregate, segregation, separate, separating, separation, severance, shut off, slough, split up, start, sunder), giarrey (abbreviate, abridge, abridging, axe, beat out, bob the tail; severance, bob; severance, carve, castrate, cleave, clip, clip as words; slicing, clip; slicing, condensation, condense, condensing, crop, crop as tail, curtail, curtailment, cut, cut away, cut back, cut short, cut up, disconnect, disconnection, dissect, erupt, eruption, flux, gash, hack, hew, incise, incision, infliction, intersect, intersection, lance, levy, lop, mark out, nicking, prune, pruning, puncture, reaping, scission, section, shear, sink, slash, slit, snip, truncate). (various references)

Pig Latin

eversay.(various references)

Portuguese

separar (branch, break, buddle, calve, detach, disassemble, disband, disconnect, discriminate, disembody, disengage, disestablish, disintegrate, disjoin, dispart, dissever, dissociate, disunite, divide, divvy, insulate, island, isolate, keep apart, outbreak, part, seclude, segregate, separate, sort, sort out, sunder, uncouple, unleash, unlink, wean), romper (breach, break, break off, break up, cut off, cut up, disconnect, disrupt, fracture, open, part, pierce, rip, run, rupture, snap, splinter, split, tear), rachar (break, chap, chop, cleave, crack, craze, cut, fissure, flaw, open, rive, slit, splinter, split), fender (cleave, crack, cut, cut up, fissure, flaw, let by, nick, open, rend, rip, rive, slit, split, sunder), dividir (apportion, break, deal, disintegrate, dismember, dispart, dissever, divide, divvy, intersect, lot, parcel out, part, separate, share, slice, sunder, whack), desunir (disassemble, disconnect, disjoin, dissociate, disunite, divide, divvy, separate, uncouple), cortar (bite, chaff, chip, chop, clip, crop, curtail, cut, cut down, delete, detruncate, fell, gash, gouge, hack, hackle, hand back, hew, hew down, incise, indent, interrupt, intersect, let by, log, lop, lumber, mow, poll, pollard, shave, shear, slice, slit, strike off, strike out, whittle), acabar com (do in, put an end to). (various references)

Romanian

separa (chop off, cleave, cut out, detach, disconnect, disjoint, dismember, dispart, dissociate, disunite, divide, isolate, partition, seclude, segregate, separate, sunder), se rupe (break, burst, part, rend, rupture, shut off, snap, split), se despãrţi (dispart, dissever, disunite, divorce, part, part company, segregate), tãia (amputate, ax, axe, butcher, cancel, carve, carve out, castrate, chop, clap, cleave, clip, crop, cross, Curdle, cut, cut on the bias, Dent, dissect, engrave, excise, exscind, fell, flench, foul, grave, hew, incise, intercept, kill, measure off, notch, notch off, pare, plough, prune, quarter, resect, rip, Rive, separate, shear, shorten, shut the works down, slaughter, slay, slice, snick, split, Square, stop, strike out, switch off), rupe (break, break off, break smth. in pieces, cull, declare off, dismember, disrupt, gather, lacerate, open, pull, pull apart, rend, rift, rip, scatter, separate, snap, splinter, split, stop, tear, uproot), reteza (clip, cut, hoe, obtruncate, prune, slash), dezlipi (detach, separate, unglue, unpaste, unstick), dezlega (absolve, disentangle, emancipate, free, loose, loosen, separate, solve, unbind, uncord, undo, unfasten, unloose, unravel, untie), dezbina (disconnect, disjoin, disunite, divide, separate, set at odds, split), despãrţi (abstract, bar, cleave, detach, disconnect, disjoin, disjoint, dispart, distinguish, disunite, divide, divorce, partition, scatter, segregate, select, separate, unyoke), desface (cleave, disassemble, disconnect, disentangle, dismantle, dissolve, free, knock down, loose, loosen, open, outstretch, pick up, pry, sprawl, spread, unbind, uncouple, undo, unfold, unfurl, unlace, unloose, unravel, unrig, untie). (various references)

Russian 

разрывать (break, decollate, disrupt, lacerate, rend, rip, rip open, rip up, ripping, severing, severs, tear, tear apart, tear open, unrip, unripe). (various references)

Scottish

spann (a hinge), sgar (disjoin; sever, divorce, part, pull asunder). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prekinuti (abort, adjourn, break off, cease, cut, cut off, cut short, disconnect, disrupt, intercept, interrupt, leave off, part, put an end, rupture), otkinuti (break off, nip, pluck, rip off, tear off), odvojiti (break off, detach, disconnect, divide, ease off, mark out, segregate, separate, set off, sort, spare, uncouple). (various references)

Spanish

separar (break off, break up, come between, disconnect, disengage, disjoin, divide, get away, hive off, keep away, move away, open, pull apart, segregate, separate, take away), romperse por (burst, go), prescindir (abstract, deatch, detach, dispense with, go without, leave aside, leave out, prescind from, put aside, separate, unfasten), cortar (ax, axe, bar, behead, block off, Bob, break, break in, chop, clip, comminute, crop, cut, cut across, cut away, cut down, cut in, cut off, cut out, cut up, decapitate, detruncate, disbranch, excise, exscind, fell, hack, incise, intersect, joint, lop, lop away, lop off, lumber, mow, Nick, nip, open, pare, pick, pluck, prune, shear, shear off, shear through, shut off, slice, slit, snick, strike off, tear off, trim away, trim off, turn off, turn out, Whittle). (various references)

Swedish

skilja (differentiate, disconnect, disjoin, distinguish, disunite, divide, divorce, part, separate, set apart), hugga av (lop). (various references)

Thai

แยกเป็นส่วนๆ, แยกออก (fissure). (various references)

Turkish

yarmak (breach, chop, cleave, Crimp, disrupt, flaw, hew, incise, maul, plough, plow, rend, rift, rip, slash, slit, splinter, split, tear, wedge off), paylaştırmak (allocate, allot, apportion, distribute, mete out, portion out, serve out, share out, split, split up), kopmak (blow up, break, break off, come off, detach, fly off, part, rupture, separate, snap, split, sunder, tear), kesmek (abandon, amputate, Bate, blunt, break, butcher, carve, cease, chaff, chop, chop off, clip, close, close down, crop, cut, cut back, cut off, cut out, deaden, disconnect, discontinue, dock, drop, dry up, excise, fair, fell, gash, give over, hack, hew, interrupt, intersect, kill, knife, lay off, lop, lop off, Nick, nick oneself, nip, nip off, occlude, pare, poll, prune, saw off, shave, shear, shut down on, shut down upon, shut off, slash, slaughter, slice, slit, snick, stanch, staunch, stem, stop, truncate, wrap it up, wrap up), bölmek (break down, carve up, cleave, divide, divvy, divvy up, overslaugh, parcel, parcel out, partition, portion, reduce, rend, section, segment, separate, share, slice, split), ayrılmak (apostatize, be off, be through with, break away, break up, break with, check out, come unstuck, cut loose, decamp, defect, depart, desert, deviate, disunite, divaricate, diverge, divide, divorce, divorce from, draw apart, draw away, drop out, fork, furcate, get clear of, get off, give up, graduate, hive off, lead away from, leave, mosey, move off, part, part company, part company with, part from, part with, pull away, pull out, quit, retire, revolt, revolt from, secede, segregate, separate, splinter off, split, split off, split up, stray, sunder, take one's farewell of, tear oneself away, unstuck, vacate, walk off, walk out, walk out of, withdraw), ayırmak (abstract, allocate, allot, allow, appropriate, assort, book, choose, classify, comb, comb out, contradistinguish, cut off, cut out, demarcate, detach, devote, disband, discard, disembody, disjoin, disrupt, dissever, dissociate, distinguish, disunite, divert, divide, divorce, divorce from, earmark, except, hive off, insulate, intend for, isolate, keep apart, mark out, part, particularize, partition, partition off, pick out, portion, reduce, reserve, resolve, seclude, segregate, select, separate, sequester, set apart, set aside, shut off, single out, snatch away from, snatch from, sort, sort out, spare, specialize, split, spread, spread out, sunder, sweep off, take apart, tear away, tear off, unpick, unstick, wall, winnow). (various references)

Ukrainian

роз'єднувати (come apart, detach, disarticulate, disassociate, disconnect, disjoin, dissociate, disunite, sejoin, unyoke), розділяти (demarcate, detach, disjoint, part, partition, set apart, split up, sunder), відокремлювати (abstract, dissever, distinguish, isolate, mark off, seclude, segregate, separate, single). (various references)

abrumpet, abrumpo, dissuta, intercidentis, separare. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "sever": severabilities, severability, severable, several, severalfold, severally, severals, severalties, severalty, severance, severances, severe, severed, severely, severeness, severenesses, severer, severest, severing, severities, severity, severs. (additional references)

Words ending with "sever": dissever, whosever. (additional references)

Words containing "sever": asseverate, asseverated, asseverates, asseverating, asseveration, asseverations, asseverative, disseverance, disseverances, dissevered, dissevering, disseverment, disseverments, dissevers, perseverance, perseverances, perseverate, perseverated, perseverates, perseverating, perseveration, perseverations, persevere, persevered, perseveres, persevering, perseveringly. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Sever" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Esber, Jever, oever, Oseva, saeva, sauver, savern, savert, savner, Seaver, seev, seeve, selver, serev, sev, Sevak, sevar, seve, sevel, Severb, severd, Severi, severn, sevir, sevor, sevre, sevy, sexer, siever, Sievier, sivar, sivery, sivre, soever, steever, sve, svee, sver, svr, swever. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: serve, veers, verse.

-1 letter: ever, eves, rees, revs, seer, sere, veer, vees.

-2 letters: ere, ers, eve, ree, res, rev, see, ser, vee.

-3 letters: er, es, re.

+1 letter: averse, breves, elvers, everts, fevers, levers, nerves, reaves, reeves, reives, revels, revers, revest, revets, revise, revues, served, server, serves, severe, severs, soever, swerve, verges, vermes, versed, verser, verses, verset, verste, verves, vesper, vexers.

+2 letters: adverse, beavers, brevets, chevres, corvees, delvers, derives, deserve, deviser, diverse, enviers, erosive, evaders, eveners, evokers, greaves, grieves, heavers, inverse, laveers, leavers, leviers, observe, obverse, oeuvres, oversea, oversee, overset, oversew, overuse, previse, prevues, reavers, regives, reivers, releves, relives, removes, repaves, reserve, reshave, resolve, restive, reveals, reverbs, reveres, reverse, reverso, reverts, revests, reviews, reviles, revised, reviser, revises, revives, revokes, revotes, rievers, scrieve, servers, service, servile, several, severed, severer, shelver, shrieve, svelter, swerved, swerver, swerves, trevets, vealers, veeries, veilers, veiners, velures, venders, veneers, venires, venters, verbose, vergers, veriest, verites, versers, versets, versine, verstes, vervets, vespers, vesture, vetoers, viewers, weavers, weevers, wherves.