Divorce

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Derived from Old French divorce, from Latin dīvortium, from dīvertere (“to turn aside”), from dī- (“apart”) + vertere (“to turn”); see verse.

countable, uncountable The legal dissolution of a marriage. Richard obtained a divorce from his wife some years ago, but hasn't returned to the dating scene.
countable, uncountable A separation of connected things. The Civil War split between Virginia and West Virginia was a divorce based along cultural and economic as well as geographic lines.
countable, uncountable The separation of a bonded pair of animals.
countable, obsolete, uncountable That which separates. 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.

transitive To legally dissolve a marriage between two people. A ship captain can marry couples, but cannot divorce them.
transitive To end one's own marriage to (a person) in this way. Lucy divorced Steve when she discovered that he had been unfaithful.
intransitive To obtain a legal divorce. Edna and Simon divorced last year; he got the house, and she retained the business.
transitive To separate something that was connected. The radical group voted to divorce itself from the main faction and start an independent movement.

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