SEVERING Synonyms

• making one feel out of place or alienated

• relating to or being a language in which each word typically expresses a distinct idea and part of speech and syntactical relations are determined almost exclusively by word order and particles

• resembling a sound of violent tearing as of something ripped apart or lightning splitting a tree

• resembling a sound of violent tearing as of something ripped apart or lightning splitting a tree

• disconnect or separate

• regard as unconnected

• eliminate airborne shock waves from (an explosive)

• reduce or eliminate the coupling of (one circuit or part to another)

• cause to become detached or separated; take off

• separate (a small unit) from a larger, especially for a special assignment

• come to be detached

• part; cease or break association with

• an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding)

• pull the plug of (electrical appliances) and render inoperable

• make disconnected, disjoin or unfasten

• release from something that holds fast, connects, or entangles

• free or remove obstruction from

• become free

• release from entanglement of difficulty

• extricate from entanglement

• free from involvement or entanglement

• separate the tangles of

• smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb

• make disjoint, separated, or disconnected; undo the joining of

• become separated, disconnected or disjoint

• having no elements in common

• part; cease or break association with

• separate at the joints

• make disjoint, separated, or disconnected; undo the joining of

• become separated, disconnected or disjoint

• separate the limbs from the body

• divide into pieces

• part; cease or break association with

• force, take, or pull apart

• the legal dissolution of a marriage

• part; cease or break association with

• get a divorce; formally terminate a marriage

• degree of figurative distance or separation

• remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract

• remove from a position or an office

• dispose of

• cause to leave

• shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes

• stay away or leave

• kill intentionally and with premeditation

• get rid of something abstract

• independent; not united or joint

• a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication

• a garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments

• standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything

• separated according to race, sex, class, or religion

• have the connection undone; having become separate

• act as a barrier between; stand between

• force, take, or pull apart

• mark as different

• separate into parts or portions

• divide into components or constituents

• arrange or order by classes or categories

• make a division or separation

• discontinue an association or relation; go different ways

• go one's own way; move apart

• become separated into pieces or fragments

• treat differently on the basis of sex or race

• move or break apart

• divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork

• break apart or in two, using violence

• disconnect or separate