separate
separate is a 8-letter English word with 26 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.
- transitive verb. To come between; to keep apart by occupying the space between; to lie between; as, the Mediterranean Sea separates Europe and Africa.
- transitive verb. To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service.
- intransitive verb. To part; to become disunited; to be disconnected; to withdraw from one another; as, the family separated.
- participial adjective. Divided from another or others; disjoined; disconnected; separated; -- said of things once connected.
- participial adjective. Unconnected; not united or associated; distinct; -- said of things that have not been connected.
- participial adjective. Disunited from the body; disembodied; as, a separate spirit; the separate state of souls.
- noun. a garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments
- noun. a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication
- verb. divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
"The road forks"
- verb. become separated into pieces or fragments
"The figurine broke"
"The freshly baked loaf fell apart"
- verb. mark as different
"We distinguish several kinds of maple"
- verb. arrange or order by classes or categories
"How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?"
- verb. divide into components or constituents
"Separate the wheat from the chaff"
- verb. force, take, or pull apart
"He separated the fighting children"
"Moses parted the Red Sea"
- verb. come apart
"The two pieces that we had glued separated"
- verb. go one's own way; move apart
"The friends separated after the party"
- verb. make a division or separation
- verb. discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
"The business partners broke over a tax question"
"The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"
- verb. separate into parts or portions
"divide the cake into three equal parts"
"The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I"
- verb. treat differently on the basis of sex or race
- verb. act as a barrier between; stand between
"The mountain range divides the two countries"
- adjective. standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything
"a freestanding bell tower"
"a house with a separate garage"
- adjective. have the connection undone; having become separate
- adjective. separated according to race, sex, class, or religion
"separate but equal"
"girls and boys in separate classes"
- adjective. independent; not united or joint
"a problem consisting of two separate issues"
"they went their separate ways"
Synonyms
offprint, reprint, branch, fork, furcate, ramify, break, differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, severalise, severalize, tell, assort, class, classify, sort, disunite, divide, part, split, dissever, discriminate
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in separate:
Common word forms
separated, separates, separately, separating, separateness
Words from these letters
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