Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb sever

2 senses of sever

Sense 1
sever, break up -- (set or keep apart; "sever a relationship")
       => separate, disunite, divide, part -- (force, take, or pull apart; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea")

Sense 2
discerp, sever, lop -- (cut off from a whole; "His head was severed from his body"; "The soul discerped from the body")
       => cut -- (separate with or as if with an instrument; "Cut the rope")

Antonyms of adj severed

1 sense of severed

Sense 1
severed, cut off -- (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")

INDIRECT (VIA cut) -> uncut -- (not cut)

Similarity of adj severed

1 sense of severed

Sense 1
severed, cut off -- (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 (vs. uncut) -- (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")