sever
Example Sentences
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Through the cockpit, the city glowed on the horizon, a strip of twinkling lights severing the night sky from the dark Potomac river.
Disney said the severed body was actually that of a robot, and the fact it had been cut in two "further emphasised its non-human nature".
From BBC
Her right arm is still weak where she severed the nerves there and had to have them taken from behind her foot, which has left her without sensation.
From BBC
After crushing a Jewish revolt in the second century, Emperor Hadrian sought to sever the Jewish connection to the land by renaming the province “Syria Palaestina”—a name derived from the long-vanished Philistines.
While many ties between Russia and the West have been severed over Moscow's war in Ukraine, cooperation has continued on board the space station.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
