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divorce

Pronunciation: /dɪˈvɔːs/

The English word “divorce” has 8 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. The legal dissolution of a marriage.
  2. A separation of connected things.
  3. The separation of a bonded pair of animals.
  4. That which separates.

verb

  1. To legally dissolve a marriage between two people.
  2. To end one's own marriage to (a person) in this way.
  3. To obtain a legal divorce.
  4. To separate something that was connected.

Etymology

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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