"sever from" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to separate or cut off from something or someone. Example sentence: The company decided to sever from its long-standing partnership with the manufacturer due to a disagreement over pricing.
How the Regents of the University of California came to sever from the institution's service men and women against whom no charge of professional unfitness or personal disloyalty had been laid is an extraordinary study in futility.
Upon the termination of the income interest retained or created by any donor, the trustee shall sever from the fund an amount equal to the value of the remainder interest in the property upon which the income interest is based.
At times he still feels his old name, painfully and without warning, the way his front tooth had unbearably throbbed in recent weeks after a filling, threatening for an instant to sever from his gums when he drank coffee, or ice water.
The commentary is a catena of quotations of nine church fathers: Origen, Eusebius, Titus of Bostra, Basil, Isidore of Pelusium, Cyril of Alexandria, Sever from Antioch, Victor from Antioch, and Chrysostom.
This was revealed in our experiments using temperature-restricted shits2 embryos, where proteins become trapped in coated vesicles unable to sever from the PM.
Urban et al. (2012) focus on the necessity to include evolutionary processes in community ecology and fully sever from the classical view of different temporal scales for ecology and evolution.
The dog was dragged for several miles until his head was severed from his body.
Ruiz was so severely injured that part of her hand was nearly severed from her arm, police said.
Severed from the history of the word "fireman," he is severed from history itself.
Mr. Gambino was later severed from the case.
Unable to fathom his future, severed from his past.
