to divorce
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4.6
- verb
- /dɪˈvɔrs/
- She decided to divorce her husband after many years of unhappiness.
- divorced from religion
- divorced from the party
- divorced from cultural traditions
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Watch on YouTubeAnd so I was really divorced from what we would call reality.
- And so I was really divorced from what we would call reality.
- Or you might have to divorce them and leave them, right?
- That's because these two parts of our brain are divorced from each other.
- He's completely divorced from fact and reality.
- It has divorced the emotion from the memory.
- There's a theme running through the whole show that you can't and shouldn't divorce aesthetics from meaning.
- Is there anything he won't divorce now?
Examples
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Without paradigm evolution, the military runs the risk of divorcing itself from society.
Academic text (1994) -
We have to divorce our emotions.
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Or you might have to divorce them and leave them, right?
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Is this the time to divorce yourself from family?
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How do you divorce a missing husband?
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Then why are you divorcing him?
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Josie threatened to divorce them, too, if they did not give her poor ears a rest.
Fiction book (1990) -
And young Darryl could not divorce himself from this image of his stepfather.
Fiction book (1996) -
You're not divorcing me.I am, I am.
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He felt that he needed to divorce himself from negative influences in his life.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To go away from a place, person, or group
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2.6
End a relationship with someone, for example a romantic or business partner
580
2.3
End a relationship or go separate ways
321
2.9
To move apart or stop being together
311
2.8
To stop taking part in a place or activity
228
3.4
To stop being involved in an activity or agreement
165
2.7
To end a close relationship and go separate ways
153
3.5
To move away from people or a place to create space
104
3.5
To separate something so it is no longer joined, for example remove a cable or turn off power
51
5.3
To stop being part of or connected to something
28
3.9
To stop being together or working with someone and go in different directions
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4.1
To leave an organization and form a separate group
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6.2
To leave a group and form a smaller, separate one often after disagreement
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6.6
To stop depending on someone or something and become independent
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7.0
To end a connection with a person, group, or idea
9
4.0
To come apart from something it is connected to
5
6.7
To stop being involved with a person, group, or idea
1
7.5
To stop being a member of a group or organization
1
7.0
Keep away from someone or something to show no connection
1
7.5
To stop feeling close to someone or something
Compounds
- Formal
10
3.7
A court that ends marriages and decides matters like child custody and property
- Slur
1
9.9
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
Surface Forms
Etymology
Divorce comes from Latin parts di- 'apart' and vertere 'to turn', which gives the strong image of things 'turning away' from each other. That is why you can also divorce yourself from an idea or group — to separate completely or stop being connected to it.