Synonyms for sever
ˈsɛv ərsev·er

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1. sever

   To break is to divide sharply, with severance of particles, as by a blow or strain. To burst is to break by pressure from within, as a bombshell, but it is used also for the result of violent force otherwise exerted; as, to burst in a door, where the door yields as if to an explosion. To crush is to break by pressure from without, as an egg-shell. To crack is to break without complete severance of parts; a cracked cup or mirror may still hold together. Fracture has a somewhat similar sense. In a fractured limb, the ends of the broken bone may be separated, tho both portions are still retained within the common muscular tissue. A shattered object is broken suddenly and in numerous directions; as, a vase is shattered by a blow, a building by an earthquake. A shivered glass is broken into numerous minute, needle-like fragments. To smash is to break thoroughly to pieces with a crashing sound by some sudden act of violence; a watch once smashed will scarcely be worth repair. To split is to cause wood to crack or part in the way of the grain, and is applied to any other case where a natural tendency to separation is enforced by an external cause; as, to split a convention or a party. To demolish is to beat down, as a mound, building, fortress, etc.; to destroy is to put by any process beyond restoration physically, mentally, or morally; to destroy an army is so to shatter and scatter it that it can not be rallied or reassembled as a fighting force. Compare REND.

   Synonyms:
   bankrupt, break, burst, cashier, crack, crush, demolish, destroy, fracture, rend, rive, rupture, shatter, shiver, smash, split, sunder, transgress

   Antonyms:
   attach, bind, fasten, join, mend, secure, solder, unite, weld

   Preposition:
   Break to pieces, or in pieces, into several pieces (when the object is thought of as divided rather than shattered); break with a friend; from or away from a suppliant; break into a house; out of prison; break across one's knee; break through a hedge; break in upon one's retirement; break over the rules; break on or upon the shore, against the rocks.

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1. sever

   Synonyms:
   separate, divide, disjoin, distinguish, part, discommunicate, sunder, disengage, detach, break, except, disconnect

   Antonyms:
   unite, conjoin, confound, confuse, amalgamate, associate, include, connect

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1. sever, break upverb

   set or keep apart

   "sever a relationship"

   Synonyms:
   fragmentise, decompose, collapse, interrupt, crash, split up, pick, dismantle, break up, recess, part, crock up, cut off, fragment, split, disperse, separate, disrupt, discerp, dissolve, crack, fragmentize, break apart, calve, dissipate, scatter, break down, resolve, disassemble, take apart, dispel, adjourn, break, crack up, lop

2. discerp, sever, lopverb

   cut off from a whole

   "His head was severed from his body"; "The soul discerped from the body"

   Synonyms:
   crop, snip, discerp, dismember, trim, cut back, prune, lop, break up, dress, clip, take apart

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1. rentverb

   being a common word in the form of noun, rent is unknown to many as verb.

   there is a slim rent in the boulder that makes it distinguished.

   Submitted by MAMIDALA on June 8, 2022  

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1. seververb

   Synonyms:
   part, divide, separate, disjoin, disunite, sunder, detach, disconnect, disengage

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1. seververb

   Synonyms:
   part, divide, disunite, separate, disjoin, detach, disconnect

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1. List of paraphrases for "sever":

   cut, break, server

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1. Fred Wertheimer:

   If? Parscale? wanted to sever himself completely from the super PAC, then I don't know why he would create a company involving his wife, it's hard to know if there's a legal issue or not, because of the lack of transparency.

2. Guy Mayeda:

   To be an effective care provider, physicians need to communicate with patients honestly and without the fear of generating hurt feelings that might sever a typical friendship.

3. Jimo Borjigin:

   You have to sever [the chemical communication between] the brain and heart in order to save the heart.

4. Ryan McCormick:

   Breaking the Silence. if they really want to distance themselves [from the Duggar family] they sever all ties. They do what the WWE did, which was completely sever all ties from Hulk Hogan.

5. Immanuel Kant, CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON:

   Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as of idealism and skepticism, which are dangerous chiefly to the Schools, and hardly allow of being handed on to the public.