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# divorce

«divorce» in Mova's school dictionary: **The legal ending of a marriage, so the husband and wife…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a divorce, divorces); verb (divorce, divorces, divorced, divorcing); adjective: divorced

### meaning for a pupil

1) The legal ending of a marriage, so the husband and wife are no longer married. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/divorce/#m1)

2) To end your marriage to someone by law. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/divorce/#m2)

3) To separate two things completely (formal: you can't divorce sport from fun). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/divorce/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life many children have parents who are divorced or separated; families can still love and care for children after a divorce. In health and well-being lessons pupils learn that divorce is never a child's fault, and that it is fine to feel sad or angry and to talk to someone. In stories it can be a change the character must get used to. Phrases: get a divorce, get divorced, divorced parents.

### examples

- My parents got divorced when I was five. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/divorce/#x1)
- A divorce is when a marriage ends by law. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/divorce/#x2)
- After the divorce, I stay with Dad at weekends. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/divorce/#x3)
- It is never the child's fault when parents divorce. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/divorce/#x4)
- Lots of my friends have divorced parents. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/divorce/#x5)
- They divorced but stayed good friends. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/divorce/#x6)
- If your family changes, talk to someone you trust about how you feel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/divorce/#x7)
- The Voyvode waxed wroth, and demanded a divorce. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/divorce/#x8)

### note

Say «get divorced» or «divorce someone» (She divorced him); not «divorce with someone». «Separated» means living apart but still married; «divorced» means the marriage has legally ended.

### In the corpora

- [Separating means parents stop living together as a couple; it may lead to a divorce, but not always straight away.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/15-when-parents-separate/6/)
- [A divorce is the official legal end of a marriage, and "the divorce came through" means the court has finished it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/15-when-parents-separate/11/)
- [A divorce can feel sad and also a relief, because a long, hard process is over.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/15-when-parents-separate/12/)
- [Remarrying means marrying again after a divorce or after a husband or wife has died.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/16-new-partners-and-step-families/15/)
- ["Separated" means a married couple living apart, before or instead of a divorce.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/12-birth-and-couples/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «divorce» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/divorce/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.