Need another word that means the same as “divorce”? Find 51 synonyms and 30 related words for “divorce” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Divorce” are: divorcement, dissolution, annulment, official separation, separation, disunion, split, severance, rupture, breach, parting, division, partition, disunity, distance, estrangement, alienation, disassociate, disjoint, dissociate, disunite, split up, split up with, end one's marriage, end one's marriage to, get a divorce, get a divorce from, separate, separate from, part, part from, split from, break up, break up with, part company, part company with, dissolve one's marriage, dissolve one's marriage to, annul one's marriage, annul one's marriage to, disconnect, divide, sever, disjoin, detach, isolate, alienate, set apart, keep apart, cut off
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “divorce” as a noun can have the following definitions:
| alienation | (law) the voluntary and absolute transfer of title and possession of real property from one person to another. A sense of alienation from our environment. |
| annulment | The act of annulling something. Grounds for an annulment. |
| breach | A failure to perform some promised act or obligation. A breach in the mountain wall. |
| dissolution | The termination of a meeting. An advanced state of dissolution. |
| distance | The distance from the winning post which a horse must have reached when the winner finishes in order to qualify for a subsequent heat. Watching them from a distance. |
| disunion | The breaking up of something such as a federation. His rejection of disunion was consistent with his nationalism. |
| disunity | Lack of unity (usually resulting from dissension. The disunity among opposition parties. |
| division | A group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category. The villagers lived in a communal building and there were no solid divisions between neighbours. |
| divorcement | The legal dissolution of a marriage. |
| estrangement | The fact of no longer being on friendly terms or part of a social group. A parent s rights in the event of divorce or estrangement. |
| official separation | A worker who holds or is invested with an office. |
| parting | The act of departing politely. The parting of the Red Sea. |
| partition | The act of dividing or partitioning separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart. This takes a copy of hard disk partition information during installation. |
| rupture | An instance of breaking or bursting suddenly and completely. The patient died after rupture of an aneurysm. |
| separation | The process of distinguishing between two or more things. Religion involved the separation of the sacred and the profane. |
| severance | Dismissal or discharge from employment. A complete severance of links with the Republic. |
| split | A single thickness of split hide. The split between the rich and the poor. |
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “divorce” as a verb can have the following definitions:
| alienate | Make (someone) become unsympathetic or hostile. The association does not wish to alienate its members. |
| annul one's marriage | Declare invalid. |
| annul one's marriage to | Cancel officially. |
| break up | Make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret. |
| break up with | Separate from a clinch, in boxing. |
| cut off | Cut off the testicles of male animals such as horses. |
| detach | Come to be detached. A figure in brown detached itself from the shadows. |
| disassociate | Part; cease or break association with. She disassociated herself from the organization when she found out the identity of the president. |
| disconnect | Make disconnected disjoin or unfasten. He disconnected the main power cables from the batteries. |
| disjoin | Become separated disconnected or disjoint. They asked that their parish be disjoined from Lewis and added to Harris. |
| disjoint | Make disjoint separated or disconnected undo the joining of. Disjoint the chicken before cooking it. |
| dissociate | (especially in abstract contexts) disconnect or separate. These compounds are dissociated by solar radiation to yield atoms of chlorine. |
| dissolve one's marriage | Cause to lose control emotionally. |
| dissolve one's marriage to | Become or cause to become soft or liquid. |
| disunite | Force, take, or pull apart. The depiction of the protesters is designed to discredit and disunite the movement. |
| divide | Form a boundary between (two people or things. Cities where politicians frequently divide along racial lines. |
| end one's marriage | Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical. |
| end one's marriage to | Bring to an end or halt. |
| get a divorce | Cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition. |
| get a divorce from | Reach and board. |
| isolate | Place or set apart. His difficulty will be to isolate the factors which are most significant. |
| keep apart | Stick to correctly or closely. |
| part | Come apart. Moses parted the Red Sea. |
| part company | Force, take, or pull apart. |
| part company with | Discontinue an association or relation; go different ways. |
| part from | Go one’s own way; move apart. |
| separate | Become separated into pieces or fragments. The friends separated after the party. |
| separate from | Divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork. |
| set apart | Put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground. |
| sever | Divide by cutting or slicing, especially suddenly and forcibly. Sever a relationship. |
| split | Discontinue an association or relation; go different ways. The party was deeply split over its future direction. |
| split from | Go one’s own way; move apart. |
| split up | Discontinue an association or relation; go different ways. |
| split up with | Come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure. |
| adultery | Extramarital sex that willfully and maliciously interferes with marriage relations. Adultery is often cited as grounds for divorce. |
| alienate | Transfer ownership of (property rights) to another person or group. The boring work alienated his employees. |
| alienation | Separation resulting from hostility. Unemployment may generate a sense of political alienation. |
| alimony | Court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated. He is said to have paid 300 000 alimony to his first wife. |
| couple | Join to form a pair. The engaged couple. |
| dissociate | Part; cease or break association with. You must dissociate these two events. |
| estrange | Arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness. Years of boarding school estranged the child from her home. |
| estranged | Caused to be unloved. Harriet felt more estranged from her daughter than ever. |
| estrangement | The feeling of being alienated from other people. A parent s rights in the event of divorce or estrangement. |
| ex | Out of fashion. All his exes live in Texas. |
| fiance | A man who is engaged to be married. |
| girlfriend | Any female friend. He lives with his girlfriend. |
| husband | Use cautiously and frugally. She husbanded their financial resources through difficult times. |
| isolate | A culture of microorganisms isolated for study. His difficulty will be to isolate the factors which are most significant. |
| isolation | A defense mechanism in which memory of an unacceptable act or impulse is separated from the emotion originally associated with it. Isolation from family and friends may also contribute to anxiety. |
| loneliness | The fact of being without companions; solitariness. The loneliness of a sailor s life. |
| marry | Take in marriage. They had no plans to marry. |
| newlywed | Someone recently married. |
| paramour | A lover, especially the illicit partner of a married person. |
| polygamy | The practice or custom of having more than one wife or husband at the same time. |
| schism | Division of a group into opposing factions. Another schism like that and they will wind up in bankruptcy. |
| segregate | Someone who is or has been segregated. We don t segregate in this county. |
| separate | Become separated into pieces or fragments. Separate the eggs and beat the egg yolks. |
| separation | The generation of a turbulent boundary layer between the surface of a body and a moving fluid, or between two fluids moving at different speeds. She and her husband have agreed to a trial separation. |
| sequester | Set apart from others. Non precipitating water softeners use complex phosphates to sequester calcium and magnesium ions. |
| severance | The action of ending a connection or relationship. Employees were offered severance terms. |
| spouse | A husband or wife, considered in relation to their partner. |
| wed | Perform a marriage ceremony. They were wed in London. |
| widower | A man who has lost his spouse by death and has not married again. Her new found passion has turned me into a tennis widower. |
| wife | The wife of a person with a specified occupation. A clergy wife. |
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