Divorce vs Divert - What's the difference?
divorce | divert |
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.
To turn aside from a course.
* Milton
To distract.
To entertain or amuse (by diverting the attention)
* C. J. Smith
(obsolete) To turn aside; to digress.
As a noun divorce
is a divorced man.As a verb divert is
to turn aside from a course.divorce
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(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.
Synonyms
* (to legally dissolve a marriage) split up * (to separate something that was connected) disassociate, disjoint, dissociate, disunite, separateAntonyms
* marryDerived terms
* innocently divorceddivert
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Verb
(en verb)- The workers diverted the stream away from the road.
- that crude apple that diverted Eve
- Don't let him divert your attention; keep your eye on the ball.
- We are amused by a tale, diverted by a comedy.
- I diverted to see one of the prince's palaces. — Evelyn.