Divorce

Definitions

1. A divorced man.
2. The 65th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an
3. The legal dissolution of a marriage.
   countable, uncountable
4. The 65th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
5. A separation of connected things.
   countable, uncountable
6. The separation of a bonded pair of animals.
   countable, uncountable
7. That which separates.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Richard obtained a divorce from his wife some years ago, but hasn't returned to the dating scene.”

“The Civil War split⟳ between Virginia and West Virginia was a divorce based along cultural and economic as well as geographic lines.”

“The great trick⟳ of online retail has been to get⟳ us to do more shopping while thinking less about it – thinking less, in particular, about how our purchases reach⟳ our homes. This divorce of a product from its voyage to us is perhaps the thing that Amazon has sold us most successfully”

“To make⟳ divorce of their incorporate league”

“Go with me like⟳ good angels to my end⟳; / And as the long divorce of steel falls on me, / Make⟳ of your prayers one sweet sacrifice, / And lift⟳ my soul to heaven. Lead⟳ on, o' God's name⟳.”

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