Definitions for divorce

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divorce di·vorce

Spelling: [dih-vawrs, -vohrs]

IPA: /dɪˈvɔrs, -ˈvoʊrs/

Divorce is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 182 anagrams from letters in divorce (cdeiorv).

Definitions for divorce

noun

1. a judicial declaration dissolving a marriage in whole or in part, especially one that releases the marriage partners from all matrimonial obligations. Compare judicial separation.
2. any formal separation of husband and wife according to established custom.
3. total separation; disunion:
4. a divorced man.

verb (used with object)

1. to separate by divorce:
2. to break the marriage contract between oneself and (one's spouse) by divorce:
3. to separate; cut off:

verb (used without object)

1. to get a divorce.

Origin of divorce

1350-1400; Middle English Anglo-French Latin dīvortium separation, equivalent to dīvort(ere), variant of dīvertere to divert + -ium -ium

Examples for divorce

divorce ensued, along with a deluge of humiliating media coverage.

Should you have thought she'd marry so soon after her divorce?

Nothing human could divorce ties which nature had so strongly woven.

The good bishop believed she had jeopardised her soul with divorce.

The pair began their relationship in 2007, and went public with it in 2010 after her divorce was finalized.

Just a week after her divorce, she was invited to a wedding by her sister-in-law.

I am bound, after the divorce, to marry the woman I have seduced.

She moved out a month later, and du Pont subsequently filed for divorce.

But I can't get a divorce while I'm shut up in this house and watched.

Ruby also danced in a chorus of a Hollywood club for a while, as her marriage deteriorated and finally ended in divorce.