noun🔗ShareThe legal dissolution of a marriage."The number of divorces increased last year, suggesting more couples are choosing to end their marriages. "familylawsocietyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA 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."familylawsocietyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareThat which separates.""The wide river acts as one of the divorces between the two countries." "familylawChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo legally dissolve a marriage between two people."A ship captain can marry couples, but cannot divorce them."familylawChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo end one's own marriage to (a person) in this way."Lucy divorced Steve when she discovered that he had been unfaithful."familylawsocietyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo obtain a legal divorce."Edna and Simon divorced last year; he got the house, and she retained the business."familylawChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo separate something that was connected."The radical group voted to divorce itself from the main faction and start an independent movement."familylawChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading