sever
Example Sentences
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Highway 2, the most direct route from greater Seattle, where nearly 60% of the money spent in Leavenworth originates—and severed access to a major ski resort.
Doctors discovered Morgan had a severed bowel and had developed sepsis.
From BBC
But severing ties comes with its own consequences.
They face an impossible choice: Continue offering help and risk enabling more troubled behavior, or sever ties and chance losing their child forever.
Bush that Stalin had “severed” Mongolia from China.
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