severed

sev·er  (svr)

v. sev·ered, sev·er·ing, sev·ers

v.tr.

1. To set or keep apart; divide or separate.

2. To cut off (a part) from a whole.

3. To break up (a relationship, for example); dissolve. See Synonyms at separate.

v.intr.

1. To become cut or broken apart.

2. To become separated or divided from each other.

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[Middle English severen, from Anglo-Norman severer, from Vulgar Latin *sperre, from Latin sparre; see separate.]

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

severed - detached by cutting; "cut flowers"; "a severed head"; "an old tale of Anne Bolyn walking the castle walls with her poor cut-off head under her arm" cut off cut - separated into parts or laid open or penetrated with a sharp edge or instrument; "the cut surface was mottled"; "cut tobacco"; "blood from his cut forehead"; "bandages on her cut wrists"