the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separate [verb (transitive)] > separate from > separate or cut off (5)
transitive. To cut so as to take off; to detach by cutting (something material).
transitive. To cut up; to cut off or away. In later use chiefly Ophthalmology: to perform discission upon (the lens of the eye, a cataract…
To forbid, exclude (a person from a place or position, Death from a person). Cf. warn, v.1 6c.
transitive. To cut through, sever. Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To cut away, cut down.