Sever

English

Verb

Sever (third-person singular simple present Severs, present participle Severing, simple past and past participle Severed)

1. To cut free.

   After he graduated, he severed all links to his family.

Related terms

• separate

Adverbs for Sever

permanently; completely; fatally; partially; hopelessly; voluntarily; legally; financially; economically; socially.

Thesaurus

abandon, amputate, analyze, anatomize, atomize, ax, bisect, bob, break off, break up, butcher, carve, cease, change, chop, chop logic, cleave, contradistinguish, cut, cut away, cut in two, cut off, demarcate, demark, desynonymize, detach, dichotomize, difference, differentiate, discern, disconnect, discontinue, discriminate, disequalize, disjoin, disjoint, dissect, dissever, dissolve, distinguish, disunite, diversify, divide, divorce, dock, draw the line, end, excise, extricate, fissure, gash, hack, halve, hew, incise, individualize, individuate, jigsaw, lance, make a distinction, mark, mark off, mark out, mark the interface, modify, pare, part, particularize, personalize, pick out, prune, refine a distinction, rend, rive, saw, scissor, screen, screen out, segregate, select, separate, set a limit, set apart, set off, severalize, sieve, sieve out, sift, sift out, slash, slice, slit, snip, sort, sort out, specialize, split, split hairs, stop, subdivide, subtilize, sunder, suspend, tear, terminate, vary, whittle, winnow

Etymology

From Middle English severen < Old French sevrer < Latin separare (“to separate”) < se- (“apart”) + parare (“provide, arrange”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /ˈsɛv.ɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɛvə(r)

Translations

cut free

Dutch: lossnijden (nl) Dyirbal: nudin (Guwal) Finnish: irrottaa, hakata irti French: rompre (fr) German: abtrennen (de)

Hungarian: elvág (hu) Japanese: 切断する (setsudan suru) Korean: 절단하다 (ko) Kurdish: په‌ڕاندن Spanish: cortar (es), romper (es)

External links

• Sever in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• Sever in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• Sever at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• serve
• veers
• verse

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Czech

Noun

Sever m.

1. north

Antonyms

• jih

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *sěverъ.

Pronunciation

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Derived terms

• severní
• Severka
• severák
• seveřan
• severovýchod
• severozápad

See also

• východ
• západ

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Serbo-Croatian

Noun

sȅver m. (Cyrillic spelling се̏вер)

1. (uncountable) north

Alternative forms

• (Ijekavian): sjȅver

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *sěverъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /sêʋer/
• Hyphenation: se‧ver

Declension

    declension of Sever

	singular
nominative	sever
genitive	severa
dative	severu
accusative	sever
vocative	severe
locative	severu
instrumental	severom

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Slovak

Noun

sever m. (plural severy)

1. North

   na sever

   to the north

   na severe

   in the north

   na sever od Ontária

   (moving) north of Ontario

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *sěverъ.

Declension

sever stem

severu dat sg

severe loc sg

declension pattern dub

Derived terms

• severák
• Severan
• severne
• severný
• severovýchod
• severozápad

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Slovene

Noun

Sever m.

1. north (compass point)

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *sěverъ.