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
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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."
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Dissociate as a verb (intransitive):
To part; to stop associating.
Examples:
"After the big fight, the gang totally dissociated from each other."
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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"
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Dissociate as a verb (chemistry, intransitive):
To undergo dissociation.
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Dissociate as a verb (psychology, intransitive):
To undergo dissociation.
Examples:
"Gerald checked himself into the hospital because he was dissociating."
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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."
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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."
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Divorce as a noun (obsolete):
That which separates.
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Divorce as a verb (transitive):
To legally dissolve a marriage between two people.
Examples:
"A ship captain can marry couples, but cannot divorce them."
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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."
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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."
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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."