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      divorce
      noun
      The legal dissolution of a marriage.
      A separation of connected things.
      (zoology) The separation of a bonded pair of animals.
      The 65th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
      (obsolete) That which separates.
      verb
      (transitive) To legally dissolve a marriage between two people.
      (intransitive) To obtain a legal divorce.
      (transitive) To end one's own marriage to (a person) in this way.
      (transitive) To separate something that was connected.
      Roots
      vertovorc- · Latin · turn
      Synonyms for divorce
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