| Definitions | noun
- The legal dissolution of a marriage.
- Richard obtained a from his wife some years ago, but hasn't returned to the dating scene.
- A separation of connected things.
- The Civil War split between Virginia and West Virginia was a based along cultural and economic, as well as geographic, lines.
Translations: - French: divorce(fr)m
- German: Scheidung , Ehescheidung
- Spanish: divorcio(es)m
verb (divorc, ing)
- (transitive) To legally dissolve a marriage between two people.
- A ship captain can marry couples, but cannot them.
- (transitive) To end one's own marriage in this way.
- Lucy divorced from Steve when she discovered that he had been unfaithful.
- (transitive) To separate something that was connected.
- The radical group voted to itself from the main faction and start an independent movement.
- (intransitive) To obtain a legal divorce.
- Edna and Simon divorced last year; he got the house, and she retained the business.
Translations: - French: divorcer(fr)
- German: scheiden(de)
- Italian: divorziare(it)
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