sever

Object

• ty: Maggie gives Steph some sobering information - should she sever all ties with Woody?
• limb: This campaign was to involve walking children with severed limbs down the street some of Americas biggest diamond retail areas.
• tendon: His right arm was cut by shards of glass, severing a tendon.
• artery: First, there is the severed artery in his wrist.
• filament: Under some conditions cofilin severs actin filaments, providing new plus ends for nucleation of actin filament growth.
• head: Using a super sharp knife sever the head from the body.

Modifying Another Word

• neatly: McCallister looked through the window to where the Bell rope had been neatly severed thirty feet above the playground.
• partially: Children learn how to make black eyes, bruises, burns and even partially severed limbs!
• completely: About 60m behind the keel at the stern end, the ship is completely severed in half.
• nearly: Early in the raid several telephone exchanges were damaged, and cables nearly severed at points where they passed under the River Hull.
• almost: Within hours of starting work his head was almost severed by the grab of a crane.
• finally: Thus the Corporation became its own Lord of the Manor and the Ramsden connection with Huddersfield, was finally severed.

Followed by a transitive particle

off: When Melissa struck, many companies were forced to take their severs off line.

Used with why or when

when: The leaven and the dough can never be severed when kneaded together, so neither can [ Pg.

Preposition: of

• link: This was closely followed by the severing of cyber links to the main GBA computer.
• ty: A strategy which not only resulted in my own severing of ties but also the exit of leading comrade, Ian Donovan.
• relationship: The End of Something looks at the way love can come to an end - it is about the severing of a relationship.

Preposition: from

• rest: Even if the contract administration element was severed from the rest, again, the scale of fees applied.
• body: This meant that parts severed from a body during the course of death or prior to death were not covered by the regulation.
• occupation: The entitlement will not be severed from occupation of each Lot.