divorce
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: Derived from Old French divorce, from Latin dīvortium, from dīvertere (“to turn aside”), from dī- (“apart”) + vertere (“to turn”); see verse.
Inflected forms:
form: divorces
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: divorces
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: divorcing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: divorced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: divorced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The legal dissolution of a marriage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Richard obtained a divorce from his wife some years ago, but hasn't returned to the dating scene.
gloss: A separation of connected things.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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
gloss: The separation of a bonded pair of animals.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: That which separates.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: To legally dissolve a marriage between two people.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To end one's own marriage to (a person) in this way.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Lucy divorced Steve when she discovered that he had been unfaithful.
gloss: To obtain a legal divorce.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Edna and Simon divorced last year; he got the house, and she retained the business.
gloss: To separate something that was connected.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The radical group voted to divorce itself from the main faction and start an independent movement.
He is knight dubb'd with vnhatche'd Rapier, and on carpet conſideration, but he is a diuell in priuate brall, soules and bodies hath he diuorc'd three, and his incenſement at this moment is ſo implacable, that ſatisfaction can be none, but by pangs of death and ſepulcher: Hob, nob, is his word: giu't or take't.
Antonyms: marriage
marry
Derived words: alpine divorce
antidivorce
bifurcated divorce
big divorce energy
divorce a mensa et thoro
divorce bill
divorce from bed and board
divorceless
divorce mill
divorce rape
divortiality
dudevorce
gray divorce
grey divorce
Mexican divorce
migratory divorce
no-fault divorce
nondivorce
postdivorce
predivorce
Reno divorce
sleep divorce
Spenard divorce
velvet divorce
divorcee
divorcive
redivorce
undivorce
divorceable
divorcer
divorcible
innocently divorced
nondivorcing
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