severed
adjective
[ ˈsɛvəd ]
• having been cut or sliced off.
• "severed limbs"
sever
verb
• divide by cutting or slicing, especially suddenly and forcibly.
• "the head was severed from the body"
Similar:
cut off,
chop off,
lop off,
hack off,
cleave,
hew off,
shear off,
slice off,
split,
break off,
tear off,
divide,
separate,
part,
detach,
disconnect,
amputate,
dock,
rend,
sunder,
dissever,
cut,
cut through,
rupture,
pierce,
rip,
tear,
Origin:
Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French severer, from Latin separare ‘disjoin, divide’.
