What is the meaning of severed?

verb

  • Set or keep apart.
    • usage: "sever a relationship"
  • Cut off from a whole.
    • usage: "His head was severed from his body"; "The soul discerped from the body"

adjective

  • Detached by cutting.
    • usage: "cut flowers"; "a severed head"; "an old tale of Anne Bolyn walking the castle walls with her poor cut-off head under her arm"
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