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divorce

/dɪˈvoɹs/

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What does divorce mean?

noun

  1. The legal dissolution of a marriage.
  2. A separation of connected things.
  3. The separation of a bonded pair of animals.
More meanings (6)

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.

proper noun

  1. The 65th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.

noun

  1. (obsolete) That which separates.
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IPA pronunciation

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“Yes. She never really hitched on to me—you were always there in the background. That’s why she wouldn’t get a divorce.”
D. H. (David Herbert) LawrenceSons and LoversProject Gutenberg ebook #217
A person, for example, unable to obtain a divorce in his own state, can, without difficulty, attain his object in another state.
Tingfang WuAmerica, Through the Spectacles of an Oriental DiplomatProject Gutenberg ebook #609
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Misconduct on the part of the man must be flagrant before it constitutes a sufficient ground for his divorce by his wife.
Charles Hose; William McDougallThe Pagan Tribes of Borneo A Description of Their Physical Moral and Intellectual Condition, with Some Discussion of Their Ethnic RelationsProject Gutenberg ebook #3307
Here was a young, handsome woman, if you might believe the newspaper drawing, suing a rich, fat, candy-making husband in Brooklyn for divorce.
Theodore DreiserSister Carrie: A NovelProject Gutenberg ebook #233