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severing
severing
English
Verb
severing
- present participle of sever
Noun
severing (plural severings)
- The act by which something is severed.
- 2008 April 7, Janet Maslin, “A Sex Researcher Walks Into a Lab, and Then Things Start to Get Comical”, in New York Times:
- The penile mishaps (one involving a bristled toothbrush), severings (one involves hungry ducks) and surgeries cited by Ms. Roach are nothing if not memorable, but her book consistently undermines its own discoveries.
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