the legal dissolution of a marriage by a court or other competent body:her divorce from her first husband [mass noun]:one in three marriages ends in divorce
a legal decree dissolving a marriage:my divorce comes through in two weeks
[in singular] a separation between things which were or ought to be connected:a divorce between ownership and control in the typical large company
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legally dissolve one’s marriage with (someone):she divorced him in 1965 [no object]:they divorced eight years later
separate or dissociate (something) from something else, typically with an undesirable effect:religion cannot be divorced from morality
(divorce oneself from) dissociate oneself from (something):a desire to divorce myself from history