divorce
verb/dɪˈvɔːs/
/dɪˈvɔːrs/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they divorce | /dɪˈvɔːs/ /dɪˈvɔːrs/ |
| he / she / it divorces | /dɪˈvɔːsɪz/ /dɪˈvɔːrsɪz/ |
| past simple divorced | /dɪˈvɔːst/ /dɪˈvɔːrst/ |
| past participle divorced | /dɪˈvɔːst/ /dɪˈvɔːrst/ |
| -ing form divorcing | /dɪˈvɔːsɪŋ/ /dɪˈvɔːrsɪŋ/ |
- [transitive, intransitive] divorce (somebody) to end your marriage to somebody legally
- They're getting divorced.
- She's divorcing her husband.
- I'd heard they're divorcing.
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- [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.
Extra Examples- He lived in a world of his own, increasingly divorced from reality.
- The word has become utterly divorced from its original meaning.
- He argues that morality cannot be divorced from religion.
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