DIVORCES

8 letters 14 Scrabble points

Definition of DIVORCES

noun

  1. The legal dissolution of a marriage.

    "Richard obtained a divorce from his wife some years ago, but hasn't returned to the dating scene."

  2. A separation of connected things.

    "The Civil War split between Virginia and West Virginia was a divorce based along cultural and economic as well as geographic lines."

  3. That which separates.

Related words: divorcement partition separation severance
verb

  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."

Related words: split up disassociate disjoint dissociate disunite separate

Source: Wiktionary

Word Details

Letters D I V O R C E S
Length 8 letters
Scrabble Score 14 points

Anagrams of DIVORCES

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