separating
/ˈsɛpəɹeɪtɪŋ/ adjective C2- Capable of being opened and having its two sided completely detached from one another rather than just being opened for most of its length.
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Having at last by guileful speeches succeeded in separating them, he attacked them without fear as they fed alone, and feasted on them one by one at his own leisure.
Not long afterwards he saw the Cocks fighting together and not separating before one had well beaten the other.
“And now, my dear friend,” said Faria, “sole consolation of my wretched existence,—you whom Heaven gave me somewhat late, but still gave me, a priceless gift, and for which I am most grateful,—at the moment of separating from you forever, I wish you all the happiness and all the prosperity you so well deserve.
When the ladies were separating for the toilette, he said to Elizabeth,--
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