severing

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛvəɹɪŋ/

severing

1. present participle and gerund of sever

severing (plural severings)

1. 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^[1]:

     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.

• grievens, veerings