Divorce | Mean of divorce in English Dictionary

/dəˈvoɚs/

• Noun
• the ending of a marriage by a legal process
1. Since getting a divorce, she has been raising her children alone.
2. They went through a lengthy/messy divorce.
3. Their marriage ended in divorce.
4. They are filing for divorce. [=they are filing a paper with the courts asking that their marriage be legally ended]
5. Financial problems are a leading cause of divorce.
6. a divorce lawyer/court
7. a high divorce rate
8. divorce proceedings
• a complete separation between two things
1. a divorce between theory and practice
• Verb
• to legally end your marriage with (your husband or wife)
1. After years of unhappiness, she decided to divorce him.
2. They both agreed it was best to divorce.

• to make or keep (something) separate
1. Their constitution divorces church and state.
2. The organization hasn't yet fully divorced itself from its troubled past.
• Noun
• a man who is divorced