Crossword-Solution: SEVERANCE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Severance | n. | The act of severing, or the state of being severed; partition; separation. |
| Severance | n. | The act of dividing; the singling or severing of two or more that join, or are joined, in one writ; the putting in several or separate pleas or answers by two or more disjointly; the destruction of the unity of interest in a joint estate. |
We have 21 clues for the answer “SEVERANCE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| act of severing or state of being severed | 1 answer |
| Pay after a layoff | 1 answer |
| One kind of pay. | 1 answer |
| Last check, maybe | 1 answer |
| Kind of pay for a former employee | 1 answer |
| Fired person's pay | 1 answer |
| Cabbage for canning? | 1 answer |
| Breaking off, as of relations. | 1 answer |
| 2022 Apple TV+ show that stars Adam Scott as an employee of the fictional Lumon Industries | 1 answer |
| job loss | 3 answers |
| Kind of package | 3 answers |
| BEING divided | 5 answers |
| Kind of check | 5 answers |
| Kind of pay | 5 answers |
| cleavage | 10 answers |
| Hernia | 10 answers |
| Malfunction | 55 answers |
| Pay | 69 answers |
| separation | 79 answers |
| Partition | 80 answers |
| DIVISION ___ | 86 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SEVERANCE (5)
She had sighed for her self-completeness then, and now she cried aloud against the severance of the union she had deplored.
Michael’s, saying, if he cannot keep _“Hen,”_ he shall not have _“Fred.”_ Here was another shock to my nerves, another breaking up of my plans, and another severance of my religious and social alliances.
But, even so, this definition of what may now, authoritatively, be ranked as a "best novel" is an honest and noteworthy severance from misleading literary associations such as have too long befogged our notions about reading-matter.
The other night I remembered my old friend—I believe yours also—Scholastikos, and administered the crow and the anchor—they were quite fresh to Samoan ears (this implies a very early severance)—and I thought the anchor would have made away with my Simelè altogether.
This severance was in truth more like a burial of her than a rupture with her; but he did not realize so much at present; even when he arose in the morning he felt quite moody and stern: as yet the second note in the gamut of such emotions, a tender regret for his loss, had not made itself heard.
Quotes with SEVERANCE (3)
When a man sees a dying animal, horror comes over him: that which he himself is, his essence, is obviously being annihilated before his eyes--is ceasing to be. But when the dying one is a person, and a beloved person, then, besides a sense of horror at the annihilation of life, there is a feeling of severance and a spiritual wound which, like a physical wound, sometimes kills and sometimes heals, but always hurts and fears any external, irritating touch.
Laser technology has fulfilled our people's ancient dream of a blade so fine that the person it cuts remains standing and alive until he moves and cleaves. Until we move, none of us can be sure that we have not already been cut in half, or in many pieces, by a blade of light. It is safest to assume that our throats have already been slit, that the slightest alteration in our postures will cause the painless severance of our heads.
Nevertheless the severance is rather casual and it drops a stain on our admiration of Nora. Ibsen has put the leaving of her children on the same moral and emotional level as the leaving of her husband and we cannot, in our hearts, asssent to that. It is not only the leaving but the way the play does not have time for suffering, changes of heart. Ibsen has been too much a man in the end. He has taken the man's practice, if not his stated belief, that where self-realization is…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, New Yorker, NYT, Universal.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1953–2023).