15 Verbs to Use for the Word severance

April 8Austria declares severance of diplomatic relations with United States.

I asked a famous surgeon once which would kill a man the quicker: severance of the carotid artery or the jugular vein?

If this man had wanted to bring about a life-long severance between himself and his wife, to put her away somewhere, to keep her hidden from the eyes of the worldin plainer words, to get rid of hermight not this pretence of losing her, this affectation of distress at her loss, be a safe way of accomplishing his purpose?

" In the midst of all these transactions, however, there were not wanting symptoms of financial difficulties, which, as in a previous instance, were destined in time to cause a severance between Murray and his Edinburgh agents.

" "This non-co-operation, you are satisfied, will extend to complete severance of co-operation with the Government?"No; nor is it at the present moment my desire that it should.

Nor did Mr. Carley, for his part, appear to dislike this tacit severance between his daughter and himself.

Yet although the ox has so little affection for, or individual interest in, his fellows, he cannot endure even a momentary severance from his herd.

The European group is well beyond the range of her present frontiers; while Samos, though it adjoins the Turkish mainland, does not mask the outlet from any considerable port, and had moreover for many years possessed the same privileged autonomy as Krete, so that the Ottoman Government did not acutely feel its final severance.

The full extent of his plans were really never known, and the historian is in doubt whether he intended a severance of the Union, or an invasion of Mexico.

And chief of all the terrors that assailed her was the dread of that climax to it all, when her lover would have to make his last confession, the price of his absolution being, as she well knew, a final severance from herself.

For most of them the transfer to a new country meant severance from the religious communion in which they had been bred and from the servilities or subordinations to which they were accustomed They brought little or no positive social tradition to the synthesis to which they brought their blood and muscle.

Did you mind the severance from your family because of me? AUNTIE.

" At the bottom of his soul, and in the innermost sanctuary of his conscience, Bossuet felt his weakness; he saw the apostolic severance from the world, the apostolic zeal and fervor required for the holy crusade he had undertaken.

Nowadays, and rightfully, we regard as peculiarly American the complete severance of Church and State, and refuse to allow the State to contribute in any way towards the support of any sect.

Methinks, I suffer this severance from my husband through the potency of those celestial Lokapalas, who had come to the Swayamvara but whom I disregarded for the sake of Nala."

15 Verbs to Use for the Word  severance