Definition of Severed

1. Adjective. Detached by cutting. "An old tale of Anne Bolyn walking the castle walls with her poor cut-off head under her arm"

Exact synonyms: Cut Off
Similar to: Cut

Definition of Severed

1. Verb. (past of sever) ¹

2. Adjective. separated, cut off or broken apart ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Severed

1. sever [v] - See also: sever

Lexicographical Neighbors of Severed

severalties
severalty
severance
severance agreement
severance pay
severance payment
severance tax
severances
severaunce
severe
severe acute respiratory syndrome
severe combined immunodeficiency disease
severe combined immunodeficient mice
severe postanoxic encephalopathy
severed (current term)
severely
severeness
severenesses
severer
severest
severeth
severies
severin
severing
severings
severities
severity
severity of illness index
severs

Literary usage of Severed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Anomalies and curiosities of medicine by George Milbry Gould, Walter Lytle Pyle (1901)
"An interesting phenomenon noticed in relation to severed digits is their wonderful ... Restitution of a severed part, particularly if one of considerable ..."

2. A Treatise on the Effect of the Contract of Sale on the Legal Rights of by Colin Blackburn Blackburn (1887)
"And when the agreement is, that the property is to be transferred before the thing is severed, it seems clear enough, that it is not a contract for the sale ..."

3. Water Rights in the Western States: The Law of Prior Appropriation of Water by Samuel Charles Wiel (1911)
"severed water. { 32. What acts reduce the water to possession. § 33. Analogy to wild animals—a "mineral ferae naturae." S 34. Distinguished from percolating ..."

4. The Bookman (1910)
"The severed Mantle, by William Lind- sey, belongs, on the contrary, ... It is a severed things that never can picture ot Provence in the latter half of the ..."

5. The Law of Petroleum and Natural Gas: With Forms by George Bryan (1898)
"where the claim was not to the land or its possession, but only to a part of the product, eg, coal after it has been severed and become personalty, ..."

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