divorce
IPA: dɪvˈɔrs
noun
- The legal dissolution of a marriage.
- A separation of connected things.
- (zoology) The separation of a bonded pair of animals.
- (obsolete) That which separates.
- The 65th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
verb
- (transitive) To legally dissolve a marriage between two people.
- (transitive) To end one's own marriage to (a person) in this way.
- (intransitive) To obtain a legal divorce.
- (transitive) To separate something that was connected.
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Examples of "divorce" in Sentences
- The parents separated and divorced.
- The couple divorced in the next year.
- The stormy marriage ended in divorce.
- The parents are separated and divorced.
- The ploy backfires and leads to divorce.
- Again the track covered the topic of divorce.
- He voted against the legalization of divorce.
- Hasselhoff obtained custody of the children in the divorce.
- But the third time it is pronounced, the divorce is irrevocable.
- Divorce demography is the measurement of the frequency of marriage and divorce.
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