verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cut/sever ties
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He said that he planned to sever his ties with the club.
sever a connection (= break it )
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We cannot sever our connection with the past.
sever contact with sb (= refuse to have any contact with someone )
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After the divorce, she severed all contact with her husband.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
connection
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Meanwhile the Goldsmiths were taking steps finally to sever their connection with the School.
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People like him have severed all connection with the old rules.
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He had long ago severed the connection between the door and the interior courtesy light.
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It was as if the lithium severed that connection , or clouded it so much as to basically make it ineffective.
connections
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The rest of them felt his wife tried to sever all connections .
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People like me and the Ketterings have severed all connections .
head
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A local news agency said gangs paraded several severed heads around the town.
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A solid shot coming through the bow struck a gunner on the neck, completely severing head from body.
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Grasping the sword he swung and, with one blow, severed her head .
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They slew the gentle musician, tearing him limb from limb, and flung the severed head into the swift river Hebrus.
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Earl Seiguard, following tradition, severed the head , tied the bloody object to his saddle, and leapt aboard.
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After execution he carried his severed head to the site of the present basilica of St Denis.
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The engine passed over her, the wheels severing her head from her body.
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The novice promised the old master a fantastic tale about a severed head that talks.
link
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The Consolidated Capital Fund would sever the link between finance and accounting.
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The girls who join know that they are expected to sever their links with family and loved ones.
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However, I know I myself don't want to sever my links with the past.
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To cross them was to break tradition, to sever one's links and become an outsider.
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Hundreds of members of the 100,000-strong party backed Mr Alton and threatened to sever their links with the party.
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Its values now those of a specialist activity, design severs the communicative link which formerly bound it to society.
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Often this was easier after they had severed their links with the movement.
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The answer must be that it could not since the fact of adopting depreciation accounting severs the link with finance.
links
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However, I know I myself don't want to sever my links with the past.
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The girls who join know that they are expected to sever their links with family and loved ones.
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To cross them was to break tradition, to sever one's links and become an outsider.
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Hundreds of members of the 100,000-strong party backed Mr Alton and threatened to sever their links with the party.
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A part of her didn't want to; in some strange way it meant severing her links with Chris.
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Often this was easier after they had severed their links with the movement.
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If he did not, said Mr Deerey, he would move to sever all links between Chalmers and the party.
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Two years before the refinery became operational, however, Montevideo severed all links with Moscow.
tie
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Emily had taken her revenge swiftly, severing the ties that had long been between the Grenfells and the Morgans.
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Some 35 members voted to sever ties with the churches.
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Though geographical mobility is possible, to move means severing all the social ties which the miner has built up.
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The spokesman said no one called the Kings on Wednesday morning to sever ties with the team.
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You certainly appear to have reached a major turning point in your career and must now think about severing unprofitable ties .
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They planned to start by severing ties with the thrift industry.
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For what better way to sever an unwanted tie than by disappearing off on business for a couple of weeks?
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Louis Blues, they severed all ties with popular culture.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Britain immediately severed relations with the three countries involved.
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Doctors worked to reattach his severed finger.
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High winds severed power lines in many areas last night.
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Since the job required that he be politically neutral, he had to sever his links with the Socialist Party.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A local news agency said gangs paraded several severed heads around the town.
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Apparently forensic want to argue that the head was severed from the body after death.
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Both his legs were severed completely, the right one mid-thigh, the left up at the hip.
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By this time it was severed just around the corner from Staveley Town South Junction.
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Flesheating monsters and severed body parts dance through the pages as though daring the reader to read on.
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The price of such knowledge was scars, severed fingers, and burns.
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The ruling Kuomintang is desperately in need of reform, including rooting out blatant corruption and severing gangland ties.