severing

The bullet—a live fire bullet—exited through his back but not before severing his spinal cord.

In truth, it was never a complete severing as might have been assumed.

Her departure from her kids when they were young was like a severing of relations, an estrangement that has not eased to this day.

Conard spends a lot of effort severing the causes of the crash of 2008 from the apparent expansion of 2003-2007.

Since I was an aspiring actor from the severing of my umbilical cord, his thoughts were particularly interesting to me.

Horrid the gashes where jagged iron had cut through the flesh, severing arteries and tendons in an instant.

It is the severing of the magnetic bonds which unite the body of the individual to the body of the race as a whole.

In view of the fact that Stallings was severing his connection with the herd, Professor Zepplin decided to do likewise.

Severing the same part causes paralysis of the vaso-motor nerves and dilatation of the blood-vessels.

This led to a severing of all diplomatic relations, which was ended by the Spanish minister's request for his passport.