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Divorce vs Estrange - What's the difference?

divorce | estrange |

As a noun divorce

is a divorced man.

As a verb estrange is

to cause to feel less close or friendly; alienate to cease contact with (particularly of a family member or spouse, especially in form estranged).

divorce

English

(wikipedia divorce)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The legal dissolution of a marriage.
    • Richard obtained a divorce from his wife some years ago, but hasn't returned to the dating scene.
  • A separation of connected things.
    • The Civil War split between Virginia and West Virginia was a divorce based along cultural and economic as well as geographic lines.
  • * Shakespeare
    • to make divorce of their incorporate league
  • (obsolete) That which separates.
    • (Shakespeare)

    Synonyms

    * (legal dissolution of a marriage) divorcement * (separation of connected things) partition, separation, severance

    Antonyms

    * marriage

    Derived terms

    * velvet divorce

    Verb

    (divorc)
  • To legally dissolve a marriage between two people.
    • A ship captain can marry couples, but cannot divorce them.
  • To end one's own marriage in this way.
    • Lucy divorced Steve when she discovered that he had been unfaithful.
  • To separate something that was connected.
    • The radical group voted to divorce itself from the main faction and start an independent movement.
  • To obtain a legal divorce.
    • 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, separate

    Antonyms

    * marry

    Derived terms

    * innocently divorced

    estrange

    English

    Verb

    (estrang)
  • To cause to feel less close or friendly; alienate. To cease contact with (particularly of a family member or spouse, especially in form estranged).
  • To remove from an accustomed place or set of associations.

    • Usage notes

    Largely synonymous with alienate, estrange'' is primarily used to mean “cut off relations”, particularly in a family setting, while ''alienate'' is rather used to refer to driving off (“he ''alienated'' her with his atrocious behavior”) or to offend a group (“the imprudent remarks ''alienated the urban demographic”). When speaking of parents being estranged from a child of theirs, disown is frequently used instead, and has a stronger connotation.

    Synonyms

    * (cause to feel less close) alienate, antagonize, disaffect, isolate * (remove from an accustomed context) wean

    Derived terms

    * estrangement * estranger

    Related terms

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    Coordinate terms

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