divorced

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divorced

  1. Cut off, or separated.
    • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page ix:
      It is also pertinent to note that the current obvious decline in work on holarctic hepatics most surely reflects a current obsession with cataloging and with nomenclature of the organisms—as divorced from their study as living entities.
  2. (of a marriage) Legally dissolved.
    It is a sad fact that 43% of marriages are now divorced.
  3. (of persons formerly married) Having had one's marriage legally dissolved.
    Mark's parents are divorced.

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divorced

  1. simple past and past participle of divorce

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