Detach vs Divorce - What's the difference?
detach | divorce |
To take apart from; to take off.
(military) To separate for a special object or use.
The legal dissolution of a marriage.
A separation of connected things.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) That which separates.
To legally dissolve a marriage between two people.
To end one's own marriage in this way.
To separate something that was connected.
To obtain a legal divorce.
As a verb detach
is to take apart from; to take off.As a noun divorce is
a divorced man.detach
English
Verb
(es)- to detach the tag from a newly purchased garment
- to detach a ship from a fleet, or a company from a regiment
Antonyms
* attachDerived terms
* detachable * detachmentdivorce
English
(wikipedia divorce)Noun
(en noun)- Richard obtained a divorce from his wife some years ago, but hasn't returned to the dating scene.
- The Civil War split between Virginia and West Virginia was a divorce based along cultural and economic as well as geographic lines.
- to make divorce of their incorporate league
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* (legal dissolution of a marriage) divorcement * (separation of connected things) partition, separation, severanceAntonyms
* marriageDerived terms
* velvet divorceVerb
(divorc)- A ship captain can marry couples, but cannot divorce them.
- Lucy divorced Steve when she discovered that he had been unfaithful.
- The radical group voted to divorce itself from the main faction and start an independent movement.
- Edna and Simon divorced last year; he got the house, and she retained the business.
