divorce

Plural: divorces

Noun

• the legal dissolution of a marriage
• The legal dissolution of a marriage.
• A separation of connected things.
• The separation of a bonded pair of animals.
• That which separates.

Verb

Verb Forms: divorced, divorcing, divorces

• To legally end a marriage; to separate from.
• part; cease or break association with
• get a divorce; formally terminate a marriage
  • "The couple divorced after only 6 months"
• To legally dissolve a marriage between two people.
• To end one's own marriage to (a person) in this way.
• To obtain a legal divorce.
• To separate something that was connected.

Examples

• A ship captain can marry couples, but cannot divorce them.
• Edna and Simon divorced last year; he got the house, and she retained the business.
• He tried to DIVORCE himself from his bad luck by rearranging his tiles.
• Lucy divorced Steve when she discovered that he had been unfaithful.
• Richard obtained a divorce from his wife some years ago, but hasn't returned to the dating scene.
• The Civil War split between Virginia and West Virginia was a divorce based along cultural and economic as well as geographic lines.
• The radical group voted to divorce itself from the main faction and start an independent movement.

Synonyms

disassociate, disjoint, dissociate, disunite, divorcement, split up, partition, separate, separation, severance

Antonyms

marriage, marry

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