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Divorce Countable Uncountable Legal Ending Marriage Noun Ended

word divorce
definition
noun
countableuncountable
the legal ending of a marriage
The marriage ended in divorce in 1996.
an increase in the divorce rate (= the number of divorces in a year)
They have agreed to get a divorce .
Divorce proceedings (= the legal process of divorce) started today.
Bella wants a divorce.
He remarried after a divorce from his first wife, Kate.
She told him she was filing for divorce.
usually singularcountableuncountable
an act of separating two things; the ending of a relationship between two things
the divorce between religion and science
cefr-level B2

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