Definition of "severed" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of sever. (verb)
• Separated, cut off or broken apart (adjective)

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• "With the mandate severed from the bill, insurance costs will jump even faster than CBO expects."
• "What, in that flash of instant when his brain was severed from the rest of his body,"
• "At the start, Munro has been severed from a dominant global communications network, the World Ear (WE): something akin to the popular social networking site Facebook, implanted into a person's head, allowing communications between people at vast speeds, with the ability to gather information as fast as can be thought up."