The difference between Dissociate and Divorce

When used as verbs, dissociate means to make unrelated, whereas divorce means to legally dissolve a marriage between two people.


Divorce is also noun with the meaning: the legal dissolution of a marriage.

check bellow for the other definitions of Dissociate and Divorce

  1. Dissociate as a verb (transitive):

    To make unrelated; to sever a connection; to separate.

    Examples:

    "A number of group members wish to dissociate themselves from the majority."

  2. Dissociate as a verb (intransitive):

    To part; to stop associating.

    Examples:

    "After the big fight, the gang totally dissociated from each other."

  3. Dissociate as a verb (chemistry, transitive):

    To separate compounds into simpler component parts, usually by applying heat or through electrolysis.

    Examples:

    "We dissociated the lead iodide into its elements by heating"

  4. Dissociate as a verb (chemistry, intransitive):

    To undergo dissociation.

  5. Dissociate as a verb (psychology, intransitive):

    To undergo dissociation.

    Examples:

    "Gerald checked himself into the hospital because he was dissociating."

  1. Divorce as a noun:

    The legal dissolution of a marriage.

    Examples:

    "Richard obtained a divorce from his wife some years ago, but hasn't returned to the dating scene."

  2. Divorce as a noun:

    A separation of connected things.

    Examples:

    "The Civil War split between Virginia and West Virginia was a divorce based along cultural and economic as well as geographic lines."

  3. Divorce as a noun (obsolete):

    That which separates.

  1. Divorce as a verb (transitive):

    To legally dissolve a marriage between two people.

    Examples:

    "A ship captain can marry couples, but cannot divorce them."

  2. Divorce as a verb (transitive):

    To end one's own marriage to (a person) in this way.

    Examples:

    "Lucy divorced Steve when she discovered that he had been unfaithful."

  3. Divorce as a verb (intransitive):

    To obtain a legal divorce.

    Examples:

    "Edna and Simon divorced last year; he got the house, and she retained the business."

  4. Divorce as a verb (transitive):

    To separate something that was connected.

    Examples:

    "The radical group voted to divorce itself from the main faction and start an independent movement."