Severed

Definition: Severed

Severed

Adjective

1. Detached by cutting; "cut flowers"; "a severed head"; "an old tale of Anne Bolyn walking the castle walls with her poor cut-off head under her arm".

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

Synonym: Severed

Crosswords: Severed

If it's a severed head I'll be really upset (Wayne's World; writing credit: Mike Myers)

Beyond the fact that you are a brilliant Jewish physician who was born in Hungary and studied for a while in Paris, and that certain radical theories of yours have alienated the respectable medical community so that you have severed your connections with various hospitals and branches of the medical fraternity, beyond this I can deduce little (The Seven-Per-Cent Solution; writing credit: Arthur Conan Doyle; Nicholas Meyer)

Ironically, I severed his spine when I fell on him. (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás)

As long as the roots are not severed, all is well (Being There; writing credit: Jerzy Kosinski)

The wolf's bloodline must be severed; the last remaining werewolf must be destroyed (American Werewolf in London, An; writing credit: John Landis)

Can't I go my severed way (Still; performing artist: Macy Gray)

A Severed Head (1970)

The Severed Hand (1916)

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Books

• A Severed Head (reference)

• A Severed Wasp (reference)

• Cuba on My Mind: Journeys to a Severed Nation (reference)

• Severed at the Cord: This Brief Charges the Legislative and Judicial Branches With Mental Cruelty Against America's Black Boys (reference)

• Severed Trust: Why American Medicine Hasn't Been Fixed--and What We Can Do About It (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Severed (reference)

• The Severed Head Network (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Babylon 5: Severed Dreams (TV Series Episode) [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Severed coral fragments on the edge of the reef buttress. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Close up of Elkhorn coral, Acropora palmatta, where a coral branch has been previously severed. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

A severed branch of Elkhorn coral at the grounding site. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Severed branches from an Elkhorn coral stand at Mona Island. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

[Repair of severed tendon] / [Herbert L. Treusch]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Camouflaged at Tulagi, Solomon Islands, some days after she was torpedoed during the Battle of Tassafaronga on 30 November 1942. Note that her stern is riding high, and that her forward end is low in the water. The torpedo and subsequent explosion had severed her bow between # 1 and # 2 eight-inch gun turrets. Credit: NAVY.

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Germany undertakes to recognise any new nationality which has been or may be acquired by her nationals under the laws of the Allied and Associated Powers and in accordance with the decisions of the competent authorities of these Powers pursuant to naturalisation laws or under treaty stipulations, and to regard such persons as having, in consequence of the acquisition of such new nationality, in all respects severed their allegiance to their country of origin. (reference)

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Nevertheless, this very sentiment is an evidence that the connection, which has become an unhealthy one, should at least be severed.

Also, when thinking of him, saw always a stern severed head or deathmask as if outlined on a grey curtain or veronica

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Health

Patients with their spinal cords completely severed often show abnormal reflexes that emerge more than 8 months after injury. (references)

Combinations of such therapies have produced the first evidence that some functional regeneration of completely severed spinal cords in adult mammals is possible. (references)

In another more reliable operation, a vestibular neurectomy, the vestibular nerve which serves balance is severed so that it no longer sends distorted messages to the brain. (references)

Business

Chinese public hospitals will be further privatized and SOE health institutions will be made independent and severed from their administrative organs. (references)

Economic History

Bulgaria

U.S.-Bulgarian relations were severed in 1950 but were restored a decade later. (references)

Iceland

German occupation of Denmark in 1940 severed communications between Iceland and Denmark. (references)

Belgium

After World War II, the Catholic (now Christian Democratic) Party severed its formal ties with the Church. (references)

Human Rights

Russia

The interests of the court will be severed from those of the procurator, and the judge will be required to serve as an impartial arbiter between the two adversaries. (references)

Benin

For example, on March 22, the day of the runoff election for the presidency, police beat and severed the finger of opposition National Assembly deputy Valentin Somasse. (references)

Political Economy

ISRAEL

Histadrut's membership dropped sharply in the mid-nineties after the federation's links with the nation's largest health care fund were severed. (references)

Worker Rights

Mexico

However, several unions did not ally themselves with the PRI, including SNTE, the large teacher's union, which severed its PRI ties a decade ago, and freed its minority factions--including the CNTE, a breakaway teachers' union--to cooperate openly with other parties, particularly the PRD. In April the Federal Employee Union Federation (FSTSE) ended its long-standing relationship with the PRI. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "severed": be severed. Additional references.

Ending with "severed": half-severed, many-times-severed.

Albanian

grisem (be severed, be torn). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مقطوع (cut, divided, sectioned, separated). (various references)

Chinese 

切断 (Mutilate, Mutilated, Mutilating, Mutilation, sever, severance, severing). (various references)

Finnish

heidän välinsä särkyi (their relations were severed). (various references)

French

droits détachés du fief simple (rights severed from the fee simple). (various references)

German

teilte (divided), getrennt (apart, detachedly, disassociated, disconnected, disconnectedly, disjoined, dissociated, distinct, distinctly, isolated, seceded, separate, separated, separately, singly). (various references)

Greek 

αποκομμένος. (various references)

Hebrew 

מותז (cut off, splashed, sprinkled). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

贋首 (falsified severed head), 首実検 (checking a person's identity, identifying a severed head), �"�首 (freshly severed head), 梟首 (exposure of a severed head), 梟罪 (crime of exposing a severed head), 曝し首 (exposure of a severed head). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

なまくび (freshly severed head), くびじっけ�" (checking a person's identity, identifying a severed head), きょうざい (crime of exposing a severed head, teaching materials), きょうしゅ (assassin, being idle, exposure of a severed head, folding one's arms, founder of a religious sect, interest), さらしくび (exposure of a severed head, gibbeted head), にせくび (falsified severed head). (various references)

Korean 

� �단하�". (various references)

Pig Latin

everedsay.(various references)

Russian 

разрывать отсеченный. (various references)

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Derivations

Words ending with "severed": dissevered, persevered. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Severed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: evered, savere, Seffrid, Selered, servere, Sevare, Sevareid, severd, severeds, Severi, Severien, sevire, sevored, sevreed, sewered, Sverre. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: deserve.

-1 letter: reeved, reeves, reseed, seeder, served, severe, veered, versed.

-2 letters: deers, drees, redes, reeds, reeve, resee, seder, sered, serve, sever, veers, verse.

-3 letters: deer, dees, dere, devs, dree, ever, eves, rede, reds, reed, rees, revs, seed, seer, sere, veer, vees.

-4 letters: dee, dev, eds, ere, ers, eve, red, ree, res, rev, see, ser, vee.

-5 letters: de.

+1 letter: deserved, deserver, deserves, overseed, reserved, reversed, revested.

+2 letters: deceivers, deservers, detersive, overfeeds, overseeds, oversewed, oversexed, preserved, reverends, stevedore, verderers.

+3 letters: belvederes, beshivered, degressive, deliverers, deliveries, denervates, depressive, deservedly, desilvered, detersives, developers, dissevered, everglades, overseeded, persevered, redelivers, redevelops, reinvested, reobserved, reservedly, reserviced, resilvered, resurveyed, silverweed, stevedored, stevedores, supervened, undeserved, unreserved.

+4 letters: adverseness, advertences, asseverated, depressives, disbeliever, divergences, diverseness, effervesced, eviscerated, overdressed, overdresses, overexposed, overextends, overseeding, overspender, overstepped, overstrewed, silverweeds, underserved, vinedresser.