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Definition of divorce verb from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

     

    divorce

     verb
    verb
    NAmE//dəˈvɔrs//
     
    Verb Forms present simple I / you / we / they divorce
     
    he / she / it divorces
     
    past simple divorced
     
    -ing form divorcing
     
     
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  1. 1[transitive, intransitive] divorce (somebody) to end your marriage to someone legally They're getting divorced. She's divorcing her husband. I'd heard they're divorcing.
  2. 2[transitive, often passive] divorce somebody/something from something (formal) to separate, a person, an idea, a subject, etc. from something; to keep two things separate They believed that art should be divorced from politics. When he was depressed, he felt utterly divorced from reality.
See divorce in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

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