noun
- the legal ending of a marriage
- a complete separation between two things
Usage: figurative
verb
- to legally end a marriage with someone
- to separate or disconnect completely
Usage: figurative
Examples
- Their divorce was finalized last month.
- The divorce rate has increased over the past decade.
- She decided to divorce her husband after ten years of marriage.
- He divorced his wife and moved to another state.
- There’s a complete divorce between his words and actions.
- The company tried to divorce itself from the scandal.
- You can’t divorce politics from economics in this situation.