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divorced

adjectiveverbcommon in dialogue

  • //dɪˈvɔː(ɹ)st//

Cut off, or separated.

adjective

  1. 1

    Cut off, or separated.

    divorced from reality

    It is also pertinent to note that the current obvious decline in work on holarctic hepatics most surely reflects a current obsession with cataloging and with nomenclature of the organisms—as divorced from their study as living entities.

    Romain Ioualalen, policy lead at Oil Change International, a pressure group, said: “The latest draft is an incoherent and dangerous list of weak measures completely divorced from what is needed to limit warming to 1.5C.”

  2. 2

    Legally dissolved.

    It is a sad fact that 43% of marriages are now divorced.

  3. 3

    Having had one's marriage legally dissolved.

    Mark's parents are divorced.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of divorcesimple past and past participle of divorce

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