sever

(redirected from severs)
Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Financial, Idioms, Encyclopedia.

sever

verb break apart, break off, cleave, cut, cut adrift, detach, dirimere, disband, disconnect, disengage, disjoin, dismember, dispair, dispart, dissever, dissociate, dissolve, disunite, divide, dividere, divorce, fissure, isolate, keep apart, lacerate, lop off, part, partition, rend, rend asunder, rive, rupture, segment, segregate, separare, set apart, slit, splinter, split, subdivide, sunder, tear, unbind, uncouple, unfasten, untie, wrench
Associated concepts: sever a claim, sever a party, sever an action, severable cause of action, severable contract

TO SEVER, practice. When defendants who are sued jointly have separate defences, they may in general sever, that is, each one rely on his own separate defence; each may plead severally and insist on his own separate plea. See Severance.

References in periodicals archive ?

Generally speaking, the smoother the cut, the easier it is to (http://www.medicaldaily.com/stitching-severed-limb-different-part-body-how-it-works-and-why-we-do-it-406611) reattach a severed limb .

Woman's Arms Successfully Reattached After Harrowing Train Accident

He said Severs had caused ?a good deal of upset and fear.

Health unit rampage PS1,500 bill

Mr Severs was in the UK in the northern city of Darlington when his bicycle hit a parked car at 8am.

Hill International staff mourn death of VP

NAIROBI-Undersea data cables linking East Africa to the Middle East and Europe were severed in two separate shipping accidents this month, causing telecommunications outages in at least nine countries and affecting millions of Internet and phone users, telecom executives and government officials said.

Ship Accidents Sever Data Cables Off East Africa

The Ruvalcabas later amended their complaint to add the Kitchins, the current owners of the severed parcel, as additional plaintiffs.

Owner's intentional landlocking of a property does not bar subsequent private condemnation action

Stokesley's Clockmakers is available from Dr Severs on 01609 771867

Clocking up support

Severs, 46, admitted a sickening catalogue of cruelty and neglect on Doorpool Farm at Bonchester Bridge, Roxburghshire.

BAN FOR CRUEL SHEEP FARMER

WORK TRAGEDY: Graham Naden leaving court and the house where Terence Severs fell to his death

Builder fined after friend's fatal roof fall

Severs designed the Gettysburg block using a Seminole patchwork technique.

Civil war comes alive in historian's quilt

Noting that the question of cutting ties has not presented itself yet, Hu said he would feel regret if reports Papua New Guinea has decided to sever diplomatic ties with the island turned out to be true.

Taiwan has no plans to unilaterally cut ties with PNG

How can severed nerve cells be encouraged to reestablish functional connections?

Grow, nerves, grow; how can severed nerve cells be encouraged to reestablish functional connections?

Brian Severs pleaded guilty at Llandudno magistrates court to causing more than PS8,000 worth of damage at the bungalow on Marston Road, Rhos on Sea.

Handyman smashed up windows in home after his work was criticised; Man goes on the rampage causing PS8k worth of damage after dispute