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US
/dɪˈvɔɹs/
]
[ UK /dɪvˈɔːs/ ]
[ UK /dɪvˈɔːs/ ]
NOUN
- the legal dissolution of a marriage
VERB
-
get a divorce; formally terminate a marriage
The couple divorced after only 6 months -
part; cease or break association with
She disassociated herself from the organization when she found out the identity of the president
How To Use divorce In A Sentence
- Our economy is unbalanced, money is in excess supply, and its circulation is completely divorced from the circulation of goods. Inside Perestroika: The Future of the Soviet Economy
- You may not be able to hurry love, but it seems you can speed up divorce proceedings with the push of a button. Times, Sunday Times
- In Britain, one in every three marriages now ends in divorce.
- The husband is required to return these assets to the wife at the end of the marriage; should the woman be divorced or should the husband predecease the wife, these assets return to her and she is to be compensated for any damage caused to them. Marriage.
- The court granted her a decree of divorce.
- My parents divorced nearly 50 years ago. Times, Sunday Times
- The news of our teacher's divorce quickly circulated round the school.
- Divorce is never the fault of one partner; it takes two.
- But it would mean the divorcement of credit from the money mechanism, the cessation of the use of credit instruments as media of exchange.
- After her 19th birthday her thrice - divorced manager, afraid that her encroaching adulthood might impede her careerist progress, began to woo her.
