Words similar to severing

Example sentences for: severing

How can you use “severing” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

General Zinni reminded us that in addition to severing military-to-military relations with Pakistan after the 1998 nuclear test, the United States had not shipped to Pakistan the F-16s Pakistan had bought prior to the test.
The WP describes this move in stronger terms: the beginning of "severing" the government's close links with those companies.
South Carolina GOP activist and Republican National Committee member Buddy Witherspoon announced last week that he was severing his ties to the Council of Conservative Citizens: "I am a Christian.
Their severing ties bespeaks their embarrassment at having made a social misstep and perhaps anger that you wouldn't cut them some slack.
Backwords differ from back formations : the latter are words (often verbs) formed on existing words (often nouns) by severing an ending.