divorce
noun
[ dɪˈvɔːs ]
• the legal dissolution of a marriage by a court or other competent body.
• "her divorce from her first husband"
Similar:
dissolution,
annulment,
official separation,
judicial separation,
separation,
disunion,
break-up,
split,
split-up,
severance,
rupture,
breach,
parting,
khula,
talaq,
divorce
verb
• legally dissolve one's marriage with (someone).
• "she divorced him in 1965"
Similar:
split up (with),
end one's marriage (to),
get a divorce (from),
separate (from),
part (from),
split (from),
break up (with),
part company (with),
dissolve one's marriage (to),
annul one's marriage (to),
repudiate,
bust up (with),
• separate or dissociate (something) from something else, typically with an undesirable effect.
• "religion cannot be divorced from morality"
Similar:
separate,
disconnect,
divide,
disunite,
sever,
disjoin,
split,
dissociate,
detach,
isolate,
alienate,
set apart,
keep apart,
cut off,
sunder,
dissever,
Origin:
late Middle English: the noun from Old French divorce, from Latin divortium, based on divertere (see divert); the verb from Old French divorcer, from late Latin divortiare, from divortium .
divorcee
noun
• a divorced person.
Origin:
early 19th century: from French divorcé(e) ‘divorced man (or woman)’.
