divorce
/dɪˈvɔrs/, /-ˈvoʊrs/ v [I/T]Definition
› to cause a marriage to a husband or wife to end by an official or legal process, or to have a marriage ended in this way: [T] Ford divorced his wife, Anne, in 1964, and married Cristina a year later. [T] They didn’t get divorced (= end their marriage legally) until 2007. divorce /dɪˈvɔrs/, /-ˈvoʊrs/ n [C/U] › [C] Both of them agreed to the divorce.
(Definition of divorce v from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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