divorce
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Is divorce a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
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What is the meaning of divorce?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (zoology) The separation of a bonded pair of animals.countableuncountable
2. (obsolete) That which separates.Examples: "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."countableobsoleteuncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To legally dissolve a marriage between two people.Examples: "A ship captain can marry couples, but cannot divorce them."Synonyms: split uptransitive
2. (transitive) To end one's own marriage to (a person) in this way.Examples: "Lucy divorced Steve when she discovered that he had been unfaithful."transitive
3. (intransitive) To obtain a legal divorce.Examples: "Edna and Simon divorced last year; he got the house, and she retained the business."intransitive
4. (transitive) To separate something that was connected.Examples: "The radical group voted to divorce itself from the main faction and start an independent movement."; "He is knight dubb'd with vnhatche'd Rapier, and on carpet conſideration, but he is a diuell in priuate brall, soules and bodies hath he diuorc'd three, and his incenſement at this moment is ſo implacable, that ſatisfaction can be none, but by pangs of death and ſepulcher: Hob, nob, is his word: giu't or take't."Synonyms: disassociate, disjoint, dissociate, disunite, separatetransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary