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5 letters · 8 points in Scrabble
Meaning
verb set or keep apart
verb cut off from a whole
originFrom Middle English severen, from Old French sevrer, from Latin separāre (“to separate”), from se- (“apart”) + parāre (“provide, arrange”). Doublet of separate, from the past participle of that Latin verb.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0