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sever

/sev-er/US // ˈsɛv ər //UK // (ˈsɛvə) //

断绝关系,割断,断开,割裂

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to separate from the whole, as by cutting or the like.
    • : to divide into parts, especially forcibly; cleave.
    • : to break off or dissolve.
    • : Law. to divide into parts; disunite.
    • : to distinguish; discriminate between.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to become separated from each other; become divided into parts.

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Examples

  • They also need to consider severing the bond between audience data and owned inventory.

  • The National Zoo said Thursday that after 63 years it is severing its relationship with its longtime nonprofit partner, Friends of the National Zoo.

  • If Google withdraws search, it may, at least initially, sever ties between many businesses and their audiences.

  • The decision to sever ties was made after health officials became aware that the group had switched to for-profit status, Farley said Tuesday.

  • The device, made with a severed piece of a Venus flytrap, can grasp tiny, delicate objects, researchers report January 25 in Nature Electronics.

  • But the decision now to sever economic ties with the eastern regions was a surprise—and a gamble.

  • They [the regime] try to sever connections between those living outside and those based inside Iran.

  • It is unlikely that this ‘revolution’ in Kiev will sever a centuries-old bond.

  • A large coalition of Palestinian civil society groups is now calling on Oxfam to sever ties with her “immediately.”

  • She must immediately sever any relationship with the Scouts, the letter said.

  • The ax was to sever the head from the lifeless body, and all the headless trunks were to be interred together.

  • There was no mystery about the tragic occurrence except that it seemed to sever an old friendship that once was firm as a rock.

  • Take the scalpel and sever the spinal column without cutting the larynx.

  • His conduct entangled the skeins of Spanish intrigue into a knot which only war could sever.

  • On the morning of the twentieth the Emperor himself, with Lannes and Wrede, set out to sever the enemy's line.