sever

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to cut off from a whole

   Their head was severed from their body.

From Middle English severen, from Old French sevrer, from Latin separāre (“to separate”), from se- (“apart”) + parāre (“provide, arrange”). Doublet of separate, from the past participle of that Latin verb.

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