Definition of "severing" [severing]

• Present participle of sever. (verb)
• The act by which something is severed. (noun)

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• "I returned to the sawing process, and at the end of half an hour succeeded in severing the rope."
• "Slavery was so systematic in severing all the links with Africa, that African Americans became perhaps second only to Native Americans as genuinely American people with no real investment in the past, in the place of origin."
• "The Supremes overstepped their authority in severing a recount of the results which has subsequently shown that W lost in Florida."