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sever

verb as in dissociate

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On her 2014 LP, “1989,” she finally severed herself from country music, and needed to show the world she could be as dominant in the pop arena, and she succeeded commercially and artistically.

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This connection was severed, drying the Red Sea into a barren salt desert.

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A bag is a bag is a bag, even if the one being handed to you has a severed foot sticking out of it.

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“She made accusations that I skinned its skull, and I severed its head and then I took it with me,” he said.

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Over the past few weeks, the Taliban government began severing fibre-optic internet connections across several provinces, saying this was part of an effort to prevent immorality.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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