The legal dissolution of a marriage.

synoniem: divorcement.

Roget 44: disjunction, disconnection, disunity, disunion, disassociation, disengagement; discontinuity etc. 70; abjunction^†; cataclasm^†; inconnection^†; abstraction, abstractedness; isolation; insularity, insulation; oasis; island; separateness etc. adj.; severalty; disjecta membra [Lat.]; dispersion etc. 73; apportionment etc. 786.    separation; parting etc. v.; circumcision; detachment, segregation; divorce, sejunction^†, seposition^†, diduction^†, diremption^†, discerption^†; elision; caesura, break, fracture, division, subdivision, rupture; compartition^†; dismemberment, dislocation; luxation^†; severance, disseverance; scission; rescission, abscission; laceration, dilaceration^†; disruption, abruption^†; avulsion^†, divulsion^†; section, resection, cleavage; fission; partibility^†, separability.    fissure, breach, rent, split, rift, crack, slit, incision.    dissection anatomy; decomposition etc. 49; cutting instrument etc. (sharpness) 253; buzzsaw, circular saw, rip saw.    separatist.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 905: divorce, divorcement; separation; judicial separation, separate maintenance; separatio a mensa et thoro [Lat.], separatio a vinculo matrimonii [Lat.].    trial separation, breakup; annulment.    widowhood, viduity^†, weeds.    widow, widower; relict; dowager; divorcee; cuckold; grass widow, grass widower; merry widow.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: scheidenheid, echtscheiding, huwelijksontbinding, scheiding
Pools: rozwód

Part; cease or break association with.

synoniemen: disassociate, disjoint, dissociate, disunite.

Roget 44: be disjoined &c.; come off, fall off, come to pieces, fall to pieces; peel off; get loose.    disjoin, disconnect, disengage, disunite, dissociate, dispair^†; divorce, part, dispart^†, detach, separate, cut off, rescind, segregate; set apart, keep apart; insulate, isolate; throw out of gear; cut adrift; loose; unloose, undo, unbind, unchain, unlock etc. (fix) 43, unpack, unravel; disentangle; set free etc. (liberate) 750.    sunder, divide, subdivide, sever, dissever, abscind^†; circumcise; cut; incide^†, incise; saw, snip, nib, nip, cleave, rive, rend, slit, split, splinter, chip, crack, snap, break, tear, burst; rend &c., rend asunder, rend in twain; wrench, rupture, shatter, shiver, cranch^†, crunch, craunch^†, chop; cut up, rip up; hack, hew, slash; whittle; haggle, hackle, discind^†, lacerate, scamble^†, mangle, gash, hash, slice.    cut up, carve, dissect, anatomize; dislimb^†; take to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces, tear to pieces; tear to tatters, tear piecemeal, tear limb from limb; divellicate^†; skin etc. 226; disintegrate, dismember, disbranch^†, disband; disperse etc. 73; dislocate, disjoint; break up; mince; comminute etc. (pulverize) 330; apportion etc. 786.    part, part company; separate, leave.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 905: live separate; separate, divorce, disespouse^†, put away; wear the horns.   

Nederlands: distantiëren, scheiden

Get a divorce; formally terminate a marriage:
— The couple divorced after only 6 months.

synoniem: split up.

Nederlands: scheiden