severed
Chopped clean through
Severed means cut off or separated, typically by force.
A severed limb has been cut from the body.
A severed connection has been abruptly broken.
The word implies a clean, decisive break rather than gradual separation: The explosion severed the cable.
Severed ties suggest relationships ended definitively, often with finality or hostility.
Severance or reduction
- detachedApart or uninvolved
- separatedPut or kept apart
- amputatedSurgically severed limb
- dismemberedHad limbs cut off
truncated · cleaved · split · divided · lopped · hacked · sliced · chopped
cut
Severance or reduction
dismembered · truncated · cleaved · split · divided · lopped · hacked · sliced · chopped · torn
estranged
Separated by emotional distance
cut off · broken off · ended · terminated · ruptured · fractured · dissolved · abandoned · renounced · disaffiliated
limb
Jointed bodily projection
arm · leg · artery · tendon · nerve · spinal cord · umbilical cord · appendage · digit · ear
- broken apartapart, asunder, broken, broken up, fragmented
- ways to separatesplit, cut, divided, sliced, halved
- bonesskull, femur, tibia, skulls, humerus
- abandonmentabandon, abandoned, forsake, desert, leave
- divisiondivision, divide, divided, dividing, split
- fragmentsfragment, shard, splinter, shards, sliver
severedmaintained
Kept in condition
intact · connected · united · joined · associated
- severe weatherDangerous atmospheric phenomena
- severe painAcute physical distress
- severed headRemoved cranium, detached
- severance packageCompensation upon job termination
- severe thunderstormIntense storm with lightning
- severing tiesEnding a relationship completely
severe, sever, severance, severing, severs, severable, severings