severing
present participle ofsever
| 单词 | severing |
| 释义 | severing present participle ofsever sever verb[T] uk/ˈsev.ər/us/ˈsev.ɚ/tobreakorseparate,especiallybycutting: Theknifesevered anarteryand hebledtodeath. Herfootwas severedfromherlegin acaraccident. Electricitycableshave been severed by thestorm. to end aconnectionwith someone or something: The US severeddiplomaticrelationswith Cuba in 1961. Thecompanyhas severeditsconnection/links/relationship/tieswithitspreviouspartners. Cutting off and disconnecting
Examplesofseveringsevering In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. In international diplomacy, such an action is generally the prelude to theseveringof diplomatic relations. From theCambridge English Corpus Yet, this results inseveringthe notion of genetic test from the genetic information contained in the test, which could be problematic. From theCambridge English Corpus But such a drastic act often meantseveringkinship ties. From theCambridge English Corpus This requiredseveringold ties and forging new alliances. From theCambridge English Corpus Coda capture may be achieved with or withoutseveringthe consonant's affiliation to the onset of the second syllable. From theCambridge English Corpus Severingthe external argument from its verb. From theCambridge English Corpus Whether this is assumed to involve aseveringof the consonant's link to the following syllable or not (thus giving rise to ambisyllabicity) is irrelevant to the following discussion. From theCambridge English Corpus Moreover, social trends and changes in the organization of professional football have gone some way toseveringthese sorts of links between football clubs and their localities. From theCambridge English Corpus They employed various deprivation methods; these included the complete excision of a lateral eye as well as theseveringof the artery0nerve combination that projected to an eye. From theCambridge English Corpus Although flow visualization suggests that changes in the unsteady vorticity field, such as distortion andseveringof vortical structures, are possible, there is ambiguity of interpretation. From theCambridge English Corpus The final stage of cell movement involves the disruption orseveringof matrix attachments at the rear of the cell and retraction of the trailing edge of the cell (fig001cso). From theCambridge English Corpus Theseveringof the film at these points seems easy enough to interpret - a bit too easy, perhaps, to hold all that much interest for the viewer. From theCambridge English Corpus Will the border arrangements be eased, or will the borders lead to a real and tangible division by separating ethnic groups andseveringexisting relations? FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English My noble friend spoke in a moving passage of theseveringof political friendships. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Government here are deliberatelyseveringwhat might be a very useful link. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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