"severed" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It can be used as an adjective to describe something that has been cut off or disconnected. For example, "The severed branches lay scattered across the lawn."
Jason Downs, an attorney for the Gray family, told the Post: "We disagree with any implication that Freddie Gray severed his own spinal cord".
Upon hearing the news that ties with Transfield would be severed, Gray said he would "absolutely" rejoin the festival.
His family said his spine was "80% severed" at the neck and his voice box almost crushed.
Last week Unison, the public sector union, said it was reviewing its financial links with the Labour Party, a link the Fire Brigades Union has already severed.
The baby died after a coronary artery was severed.
"English judges sitting in the personal insolvency jurisdiction may have to look a little deeper into the circumstances of the debtor's move to England and claims to have severed ties with the home country," she wrote in the Law Gazette.
This is a strange, liminal object: a maypole bedecked with slim red and black ribbons and chains from which hang aluminium plaques bearing grisly two-dimensional images of severed heads.
Nicola and her 10-year-old son have season tickets at Blackpool in the Mortensen Stand but did not go on Saturday and she would like to know when the statue is being put back and if it is true, as the Tangerine Knights have been told, that the support rods have been severed.
George Brandis has threatened the withdrawal of commonwealth funding for the Sydney Biennale festival for "blackballing" Transfield Holdings after it severed ties with the company because of an artist protest over its contract work on an offshore detention centre.
In December 1941, when Hungary severed relations with the US following America's entry into the second world war, Maria Madi, a doctor in Budapest, started keeping a diary for her daughter, who had just immigrated to Louisiana.
He hopes the engineering skills shortage in Europe might help them to be accepted somewhere, anywhere barrel bombs don't fall from helicopters and severed body bits aren't carried around his block of flats by feral dogs.
