divorce
/dɪˈvoɹs/ verb B2- To legally dissolve a marriage between two people. · A ship captain can marry couples, but cannot divorce them.
- To end one's own marriage to (a person) in this way. · Lucy divorced Steve when she discovered that he had been unfaithful.
- To obtain a legal divorce. · Edna and Simon divorced last year; he got the house, and she retained the business.
- To separate something that was connected. · The radical group voted to divorce itself from the main faction and start an independent movement.
He/she/it divorces · Past divorced · Past participle divorced · -ing form divorcing
Verb forms
- Base form
- divorce
- He/she/it
- divorces
- Past
- divorced
- Past participle
- divorced
- -ing form
- divorcing
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The magistrates freely discussed their political views; the military part of the company talked unreservedly of Moscow and Leipsic, while the women commented on the divorce of Josephine.
I could only check it by finding if she had, indeed, instituted divorce proceedings against her husband at or about the time of the tragedy.
I did not know about a projected divorce between herself and her husband.
Holmes,” she said, “this man had offered me marriage on condition that I could get a divorce from my husband.
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