adj
Meaning 1
Separated, cut off or broken apart.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- a severed limb
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
severed
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CMU ARPABET: S EH1 V ER0 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
verb
Meaning 2
simple past and past participle of sever
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, participle, past
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 3
detached by cutting
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- cut flowers
- a severed head
- an old tale of Anne Bolyn walking the castle walls with her poor cut-off head under her arm
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: cut off
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
13 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: مَقْطُوع (maqṭūʕ) — cut off or broken apart
- Finnish: irti leikattu — cut off or broken apart
- French: sectionné — cut off or broken apart
- Northern Kurdish: jêkirî — cut off or broken apart
- Northern Kurdish: birî — cut off or broken apart
- Northern Kurdish: birrî — cut off or broken apart
- Latin: praecīsus — cut off or broken apart
- Latin: sprētus — cut off or broken apart
- Portuguese: cortado — cut off or broken apart
- Russian: отрезанный (otrezannyj) — cut off or broken apart
- Russian: отделённый (otdeljónnyj) — cut off or broken apart
- Russian: отсечённый (otsečónnyj) — cut off or broken apart
- Spanish: cérceno — cut off or broken apart
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