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sever
Synonyms and Antonyms of sever
- disapproving parents who were willing to do anything to sever the young lovers
break down, decompose, disassemble, disintegrate, dissolve
bifurcate, bisect, cleave, dichotomize, dissect, fractionalize, fractionate, halve, partition, quarter, segment, subdivide, trisect
fragment, fragmentate, fragmentize
break, fracture, pull, rend, rift, rip, rive, rupture, tear
Synonym Discussion of sever
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- separated her personal life from her career
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- vowed never to part
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- civil war divided the nation
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- a severed limb
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- a city sundered by racial conflict
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- cannot divorce scientific research from moral responsibility
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