单词 | divorce |
释义 | divorce n. & v. --n   1. a the legal dissolution of a marriage. b a legal decree of this.   2. a severance or separation (a divorce between thought and feeling). --v   1. a tr. (usu. as divorced adj.) (often foll. by from) legally dissolve the marriage of (a divorced couple; he wants to get divorced from her). b intr. separate by divorce (they divorced last year). c tr. end one's marriage with (divorced him for neglect).   2. tr. (often foll. by from) detach, separate (divorced from reality).   3. tr. archaic dissolve (a union). Derivatives divorcement n. Etymology: ME f. OF divorce (n.), divorcer (v.) f. LL divortiare f. L divortium f. divortere (as DI-(2), vertere turn) |
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