Divorce vs Unmarry - What's the difference?
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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 undo the action of marrying.
*{{quote-book, year=1883, author=Anthony Trollope, title=Mr. Scarborough's Family, chapter=, edition=
, passage=But there can be no doubt that John Scarborough and Ada Sneyd were married at Rummelsburg, and that it will be found to be impossible to unmarry them." }}
*{{quote-book, year=1909, author=Miles Franklin, title=Some Everyday Folk and Dawn, chapter=, edition=
, passage=If you like to exercise your authority I'll run away and you can't unmarry me. }}
As a noun divorce
is a divorced man.As a verb unmarry is
to undo the action of marrying.divorce
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.
Synonyms
* (to legally dissolve a marriage) split up * (to separate something that was connected) disassociate, disjoint, dissociate, disunite, separateAntonyms
* marryDerived terms
* innocently divorcedunmarry
English
Verb
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