divorce

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The legal ending of a marriage.

   After years of unhappiness, they finally decided to get a divorce.

2. 2
   verb

   To legally end your marriage to someone.

   She divorced her husband after she discovered he had lied to her.

3. 3
   verb

   To separate two things that are normally connected.

   You cannot divorce these ideas from their historical context.

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

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