severed
adjective
separated from the whole or divided into parts, as by cutting or the like.
half-severed
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a word derived from
severed.
Example Sentences
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But either some unconscious motion on Jack's part, or a jarring of the plane, broke the half-severed wall, and, just before Tom landed, his chum began to bleed dangerously.
From Air Service Boys in the Big Battle Or, Silencing the Big Guns by Charles Amory Beach
A few feet distant lay a ham, with a knife sticking in a half-severed slice.
From Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field Southern Adventure in Time of War. Life with the Union Armies, and Residence on a Louisiana Plantation by Thomas Wallace Knox
The existence of the island seemed to be half-forgotten, its connection with the metropolis half-severed, for the crown officers wrote in 1536 that no ship from the Peninsula had entered its ports for two years.
From The History of Puerto Rico From the Spanish Discovery to the American Occupation by R. A. (Rudolph Adams) Van Middeldyk
This more than half-severed condition, while it increased the facility of the work, also rendered it dangerous.
From Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo
Count Henrik hastily grasped the half-severed rope, and drew the boat towards him.
From King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 2 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. by Bernhard Severin Ingemann
