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divorce
divorce is a 7-letter English word with 11 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A legal dissolution of the marriage contract by a court or other body having competent authority. This is properly a divorce, and called, technically, divorce a vinculo matrimonii. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 15 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A legal dissolution of the marriage contract by a court or other body having competent authority. This is properly a divorce, and called, technically, divorce a vinculo matrimonii.
- 2noun
The separation of a married woman from the bed and board of her husband -- divorce a mensa et toro (/ thoro), "from bed board."
- 3noun
The decree or writing by which marriage is dissolved.
- 4noun
Separation; disunion of things closely united.
- 5noun
That which separates.
- 6noun
To dissolve the marriage contract of, either wholly or partially; to separate by divorce.
- 7noun
To separate or disunite; to sunder.
- 8noun
To make away; to put away.
- 9noun
the legal dissolution of a marriage
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- 10verb
part; cease or break association with
"She disassociated herself from the organization when she found out the identity of the president"
- 11verb
get a divorce; formally terminate a marriage
"The couple divorced after only 6 months"
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