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severed

/sev-erd/US // ˈsɛv ərd //

被切断的,割裂的,断绝关系,断线

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : separated from the whole or divided into parts, as by cutting or the like:The severed cables belonged to two internet companies.
    • : broken off or dissolved: One of the greatest tragedies we see in our work is the severed relationships between those in need and their family and friends.
    • : Law. divided into parts: A practice known as severed property, or split estates, allows developers to keep or obtain mineral rights underneath privately owned land.

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Examples

  • Our brains are changing, forming new neural connections and severing others all the time, of course.

  • In a plague year, anyone can get the significance of a severed head.

  • In a way, the team artificially severed the mouse’s memory of sugar water from its previous real location, instead remapping it onto a new place with clever light-based hacking of the brain.

  • Jesse Marx reports that staff in the Sustainability Department, which manages the streetlights program, followed through with the mayor’s directive, severing the ties between police and the cameras.

  • The campus this year voted to support a student government referendum calling on the university to sever ties with fossil fuel companies by 2024, the campus newspaper, the Hoya, reported.

  • “The events this year with Ukraine led to his ties with Cato being severed,” a source at the think tank told The Daily Beast.

  • Uber severed ties with him, and on Monday he was charged with misdemeanor vehicular homicide.

  • But the accent is just as clearly Trinidadian as he cracks jokes about a severed head he holds by the hair in his right hand.

  • They decapitate those men deemed foes of their faith and celebrate the gore online, holding up the severed heads.

  • In the raids that accompanied the arrests, police also found jars filled with formaldehyde containing severed fingers.

  • This was a hard nut to crack, if his past were not to be ruthlessly severed from Angel's by a word.

  • On the other hand, his feet are so cold from the artery being severed that they anticipate mortification.

  • He went down on his knees, and, with his pocket-knife, severed the rope that secured the girl to the "reach."

  • By his death the connection between the kingdoms of England and Denmark was severed.

  • The glittering steel glided through the groove, and the head of Madame Roland was severed from her body.