divorce

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /dɪˈvɔːs/|/-voəs/    美 /dɪˈvoɹs/|/-vo(ː)ɹs/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The legal dissolution of a marriage. countable,uncountable
    — Richard obtained a divorce from his wife some years ago, but hasn't returned to the dating scene.
  2. A separation of connected things. countable,uncountable
    — The Civil War split between Virginia and West Virginia was a divorce based along cultural and economic as well as geographic lines.
  3. The separation of a bonded pair of animals. countable,uncountable
  4. That which separates. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — Go with me like good angels to my end; / And as the long divorce of steel falls on me, / Make of your prayers one sweet sacrifice, / And lift my soul to heaven. Lead on, o' God's name.
动词 v.
  1. To legally dissolve a marriage between two people. transitive
    — A ship captain can marry couples, but cannot divorce them.
  2. To end one's own marriage to (a person) in this way. transitive
    — Lucy divorced Steve when she discovered that he had been unfaithful.
  3. To obtain a legal divorce. intransitive
    — Edna and Simon divorced last year; he got the house, and she retained the business.
  4. To separate something that was connected. transitive
    — The radical group voted to divorce itself from the main faction and start an independent movement.

词形变化

divorces plural divorces present,singular,third-person divorcing participle,present divorced participle,past divorced past

词汇关系

反义词
marriage marry
衍生词
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词源

词源 1
Derived from Old French divorce, from Latin dīvortium, from dīvertere (“to turn aside”), from dī- (“apart”) + vertere (“to turn”); see verse.
词源 2
Derived from Old French divorce, from Latin dīvortium, from dīvertere (“to turn aside”), from dī- (“apart”) + vertere (“to turn”); see verse.
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