separate
verb (RELATIONSHIP) /ˈsep.ər.eɪt/
/-ə.reɪt/ Definition
B2 [I] to start to live in a different place from your husband or wife because the relationship has ended: My parents separated when I was six and divorced a couple of years later.Ending relationships and divorce
(Definition of separate verb (RELATIONSHIP) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- a parting of the ways idiom
- affiliation order noun
- annul verb
- break-up noun (END)
- bust up phrasal verb
- child support noun
- chuck verb (END)
- dump verb (END RELATIONSHIP)
- finish with sb phrasal verb
- forsake verb (LEAVE)
- get the push idiom
- give sb the elbow idiom
- give sb the heave-ho idiom
- part company idiom
- parting noun (SEPARATION)
- rift noun
- run out on sb/sth phrasal verb
- separation noun
- split up phrasal verb
- split-up noun
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