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Sever

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break upverb(intransitive, idiomatic) To end a (usually romantic or sexual) relationship.
lopnoun(transitive, usually with off) To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone.

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break upverb(intransitive, idiomatic) To end a (usually romantic or sexual) relationship.
lopnoun(transitive, usually with off) To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone.
detachverb(transitive) To take apart from; to take off.
decoupleverb(ambitransitive) To unlink; to take apart or come apart.
disbandverb(ambitransitive) To break up or (cause to) cease to exist; to disperse.
unbundlingnounThe process by which something is unbundled.
removeverb(transitive) To delete.
dissolveverb(transitive) To liquify, melt into a fluid.
disconnectverb(transitive) To sever or interrupt a connection.
separationnounThe act of disuniting two or more things, or the condition of being separated.
disassociateverbTo separate (oneself); to dissolve one's association with a person, group, or situation.
dissociateverb(transitive) To make unrelated; to sever a connection; to separate.
dissociationnoun(psychology) A defence mechanism where certain thoughts or mental processes are compartmentalised in order to avoid emotional stress to the conscious mind.
breakverb(ergative, transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
interruptverb(ambitransitive) To disturb or halt (an ongoing process or action, or the person performing it) by interfering suddenly, especially by speaking.
fractured(not comparable) Broken into sharp pieces.
withdrawverb(transitive) To draw or pull (something) away or back from its original position or situation.
depriveverb(transitive) Used with “of”, to take something away from (someone) and keep it away; to deny someone something.
shatterverb(transitive) To violently break something into pieces.
segregateverb(transitive) To separate.

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