The difference between Divorce and Split up
When used as verbs, divorce means to legally dissolve a marriage between two people, whereas split up means cease to be together, break apart from the group.
Divorce is also noun with the meaning: the legal dissolution of a marriage.
check bellow for the other definitions of Divorce and Split up
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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."
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Split up as a verb (intransitive, idiomatic, Of a group of people):
Cease to be together, break apart from the group.
Examples:
"After she left to go travelling, my girlfriend and I split up."
"The soldiers split up into smaller squadrons to search the building."
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Split up as a verb (transitive):
separate, disassociate, cause to come apart.
Examples:
"The brothers never behaved in class when they were together, so we had to split them up for the exam."