0 present participle of sever
1 to break or separate, especially by cutting:
In international diplomacy, such an action is generally the prelude to the severing of diplomatic relations.
Yet, this results in severing the notion of genetic test from the genetic information contained in the test, which could be problematic.
But such a drastic act often meant severing kinship ties.
This required severing old ties and forging new alliances.
Coda capture may be achieved with or without severing the consonant's affiliation to the onset of the second syllable.
Severing the external argument from its verb.
Whether this is assumed to involve a severing of the consonant's link to the following syllable or not (thus giving rise to ambisyllabicity) is irrelevant to the following discussion.
Moreover, social trends and changes in the organization of professional football have gone some way to severing these sorts of links between football clubs and their localities.
