Divorce

/dɪˈvɔːs/ · noun

Meaning

The legal dissolution of a marriage..

Definitions by Sense

1. The legal dissolution of a marriage.
2. A separation of connected things.
3. (zoology) The separation of a bonded pair of animals.
4. (obsolete) That which separates.
5. (transitive) To legally dissolve a marriage between two people.
6. (transitive) To end one's own marriage to (a person) in this way.
7. (intransitive) To obtain a legal divorce.
8. (transitive) To separate something that was connected.

Example Sentences

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 great trick of online retail has been to get us to do more shopping while thinking less about it – thinking less, in particular, about how our purchases reach our homes. This divorce of a product from its voyage to us is perhaps the thing that Amazon has sold us most successfully

To make divorce of their incorporate league

Go with me like good angels to my end; / And as the long divorce of steel falls on me, / Make of your prayers one sweet sacrifice, / And lift my soul to heaven. Lead on, o' God's name.

A ship captain can marry couples, but cannot divorce them.

As Fire Island’s reputation grew, so did the fame of its residents. In 1977, after divorcing his first wife, Calvin Klein bought one of Gifford’s beachfront homes.

Lucy divorced Steve when she discovered that he had been unfaithful.

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Word Forms

• divorces
• divorcing
• divorced

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