divorce
963
2.9
- noun
- /dɪˈvɔrs/
:
divorcio
- After months of counseling, Sarah decided to file for divorce to end her unhappy marriage.
- marriage and divorce
- divorce rate
- separation and divorce
People who go through divorce, they have grief.
- People who go through divorce, they have grief.
- The average first marriage that ends in divorce lasts about how many years?
- No pushback on well documented lies in his divorce documents under oath.
- And in case of divorce, what happens, OK.
- For children, this can be a very painful divorce to have been a party to.
- So during the course of the divorce, one point, nobody was served yet.
- But going through the divorce, that shook me to my core.
- Obviously during a divorce, emotions are running high.
- Half marriages end in divorce, so it's rare enough.
- I believed that divorce was a huge sin.
- That's is there a high divorce rate in the is a pilot?
- So it was a pretty seamless, easy divorce and we got married.
Examples
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People who go through divorce, they have grief.
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And Ronald, I'm so sorry to hear about your divorce.
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You can file for divorce and still be afraid.
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You need to get a divorce before dark today.
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Well, she was going to ask him for a divorce yesterday.
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If one person wants the divorce, does the other one have to want it too?
Fiction book (1991) -
Now that his father was getting a divorce from his mother, things would probably be different.
Fiction book (1990) -
Half marriages end in divorce, so it's rare enough.
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The average first marriage that ends in divorce lasts about how many years?
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And they don't have kids, which makes this divorce a lot easier.
Synonyms
20
6.8
The official ending of a group like a partnership or parliament
1
6.1
The legal end of a marriage decided by a court
1
5.2
The legal ending of a marriage that a court approves
1
7.3
The end of a marriage when the partners are angry and unfriendly
A polite way to say divorce without mentioning it directly
Antonyms
Compounds
- Formal
8
3.7
A court that ends marriages and decides matters like child custody and property
- Slur
An offensive phrase used to say one person is unfairly treated in a divorce, often about money or child custody
- Literature
A plan where a couple sleeps in separate beds or rooms because they have different sleep habits
How Final
- Formal
24
6.5
- Formal
1
5.2
963
2.9
- Formal
1
4.9
Surface Forms
Etymology
Divorce comes from Latin parts di- 'apart' and vertere 'to turn', so it originally meant 'to turn apart'. The same root is in reverse, which also talks about turning, and that is why a divorce is the legal ending of a marriage, when two people are formally 'turned apart'.