divorced
adjective
[ dɪˈvɔːst ]
• no longer married because the marriage has been legally dissolved.
• "a divorced couple"
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 .
