A human arm would almost certainly have been completely severed.

Does it also work if the material is completely severed?

The hand is severed completely in a bloody, violent scene.

It is because the connection between the frames was never completely severed.

It has damaged, and completely severed, the relationship of humanity to God.

The priest told me that her head had been completely severed.

The limb had been completely severed and removed from the torso.

But sometimes the spinal cord is torn, and not completely severed.

His father's head, he'd learned, had been completely severed from his shoulders.

Rock and roll, which arrived for me in 1958, had completely severed the younger generation from its elders.