transcription, транскрипция: [ dɪvɔ:(r)s ]
( divorces, divorcing, divorced)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
A divorce is the formal ending of a marriage by law.
Numerous marriages now end in divorce...
N-VAR
2.
If a man and woman divorce or if one of them divorces the other, their marriage is legally ended.
My parents divorced when I was very young...
He and Lillian had got divorced...
I am absolutely furious that he divorced me to marry her...
Mr Gold is divorcing for the second time...
I got divorced when I was about 31.
V-RECIP : pl-n V , pl-n get V-ed , V n , NON-RECIP : V , get V-ed
3.
A divorce of one thing from another, or a divorce between two things is a separation between them which is permanent or is likely to be permanent.
...this divorce of Christian culture from the roots of faith...
N-SING : usu N of n from n , N between pl-n
4.
If you say that one thing cannot be divorced from another, you mean that the two things cannot be considered as different and separate things.
Good management in the police cannot be divorced from accountability...
We have been able to divorce sex from reproduction.
= dissociate
VERB : be V-ed from n , V n from n