1. The act of severing
   - severance

1. Set or keep apart
   "sever a relationship"
   - break up 
2. Cut off from a whole
   "His head was severed from his body"
   - discerp, lop

See also: severance

Type of: cut, cutting, disunite, divide, part, separate

Encyclopedia: Sever

• directiveness
• directivity
• directly
• directness
• director
• Director of Central Intelligence
• director of research
• director-general
• director-stockholder relation
• directorate
• Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence
• directorial
• directorship
• directory
• directress
• directrix
• direful
• direfully
• direly
• diremption
• dirge
• dirham
• dirigible
• dirigisme
• dirigiste