Definitions for sever

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sever sev·er

Spelling: [sev-er]

IPA: /ˈsɛv ər/

Sever is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 50 anagrams from letters in sever (eersv).

Definitions for sever

verb (used with object)

1. to separate (a part) from the whole, as by cutting or the like.
2. to divide into parts, especially forcibly; cleave.
3. to break off or dissolve (ties, relations, etc.).
4. Law. to divide into parts; disunite (an estate, titles of a statute, etc.).
5. to distinguish; discriminate between.

verb (used without object)

1. to become separated from each other; become divided into parts.

Origin of sever

1300-50; Middle English severen Middle French sev(e)rer to separate

Examples for sever

There must be continuity of this structure too, for to sever a nerve is to paralyze all beyond.

Some people may simply find ways to sever their awkward ties that chafe.

I am here to say this to you: here and now I sever our betrothal!

Elizabeth I have put away––death could not sever us more effectually.

They [the regime] try to sever connections between those living outside and those based inside Iran.

If you sever a number of these cords, you alter the entire drape of the curtain.

But the decision now to sever economic ties with the eastern regions was a surprise—and a gamble.

It is unlikely that this ‘revolution’ in Kiev will sever a centuries-old bond.

A large coalition of Palestinian civil society groups is now calling on Oxfam to sever ties with her “immediately.”

And do you think it will not cost me an effort to sever our friendship?