Overview of verb sever

The verb sever has 2 senses

• sever, break up -- (set or keep apart; "sever a relationship")


• discerp, sever, lop -- (cut off from a whole; "His head was severed from his body"; "The soul discerped from the body")

Overview of adj severed

The adj severed has 1 sense

• severed, cut off -- (detached by cutting; "cut flowers"; "a severed head"; "an old tale of Anne Bolyn walking the castle walls with her poor cut-off head under her arm")