verb (v)

• set or keep apart(verb.contact)

  Example:
  Sever a relationship.
  

  Synonym:
  break up
  

  source: wordnet30
• cut off from a whole(verb.contact)

  Example:
  His head was severed from his body.
  

  Synonym:
  discerp, lop
  

  source: wordnet30
• To separate, as one from another; to cut off from something; to divide; to part in any way, especially by violence, as by cutting, rending, etc.; as, to sever the head from the body.(verb)

  source: webster1913
• To suffer disjunction; to be parted, or rent asunder; to be separated; to part; to separate.(verb)

  source: webster1913