Definition of "divorce" []

• The legal dissolution of a marriage. (noun)
• A complete or radical severance of closely connected things. (noun)
• To dissolve the marriage bond between. (verb-transitive)
• To end marriage with (one's spouse) by way of legal divorce. (verb-transitive)
• To cut off; separate or disunite: an idea that was completely divorced from reality. See Synonyms at separate. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Well, from what I have read on studies of divorce is that some 60% of marriages end in divorce and mostly because of financial issues."
• "Does that mean that the well-known and often-quoted statistic of 50% of all marriages end in divorce is no longer true?"
• "She had hoped, she realized, as she walked down the lawn, breathing in the brisk fall air, that simply calling a lawyer, simply speaking the word divorce out loud, would be enough to cause some kind of transformation to take place."