📖 Definitions of "Divorced"
- 1
To legally dissolve a marriage between two people.
"A ship captain can marry couples, but cannot divorce them."
- 2
To end one's own marriage to (a person) in this way.
"Lucy divorced Steve when she discovered that he had been unfaithful."
- 3
To obtain a legal divorce.
"Edna and Simon divorced last year; he got the house, and she retained the business."
- 4
To separate something that was connected.
"The radical group voted to divorce itself from the main faction and start an independent movement."
- 1
Cut off, or separated.
- 2
(of a marriage) Legally dissolved.
"It is a sad fact that 43% of marriages are now divorced."
- 3
(of persons formerly married) Having had one's marriage legally dissolved.
"Mark's parents are divorced."
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