Couple
Couple verb - To come together to form a single unit.
Usage example: at Pittsburgh, the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers couple to form the Ohio
Sever
Sever verb - To set or force apart.
Usage example: disapproving parents who were willing to do anything to sever the young lovers
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- A married couple, Shoba and Shukumar, face extreme guilt after the miscarriage of their baby and sever all real communication with each other.
Source: Guilt Complex - Sever, Jeremiah Ecks is introduced as an alcoholic that spent the previous couple years getting sloshed in bars.
Source: Informed Flaw - Unfortunately, they failed to sever a couple of tendons, which funerary experts know will contract from the heat, causing the body to sit up.
Source: No One Should Survive That
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