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divorced

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divorced (not comparable)

  1. Cut off, or separated.
    divorced from reality
    • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page ix:
      It is also pertinent to note that the current obvious decline in work on holarctic hepatics most surely reflects a current obsession with cataloging and with nomenclature of the organisms—as divorced from their study as living entities.
    • 2023 December 11, Fiona Harvey, Patrick Greenfield, Nina Lakhani, Adam Morton, Damian Carrington, “Cop28 draft climate deal criticised as ‘grossly insufficient’ and ‘incoherent’”, in The Guardian‎[1], →ISSN:
      Romain Ioualalen, policy lead at Oil Change International, a pressure group, said: “The latest draft is an incoherent and dangerous list of weak measures completely divorced from what is needed to limit warming to 1.5C.”
  2. (of a marriage) Legally dissolved.
    It is a sad fact that 43% of marriages are now divorced.
  3. (of persons formerly married) Having had one's marriage legally dissolved.
    Mark's parents are divorced.

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divorced

  1. simple past and past participle of divorce
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