1. (

• sever ,
• break_up ,

) set or keep apart; "sever a relationship" ;

2. (

• discerp ,
• sever ,
• lop ,

) cut off from a whole; "His head was severed from his body"; "The soul discerped from the body" ;

1. (

• 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" ;