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Divorcing

Divorce \Di*vorce"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Divorced; p. pr. & vb. n. Divorcing.] [Cf. F. divorcer. See Divorce, n.]

  1. To dissolve the marriage contract of, either wholly or partially; to separate by divorce.

  2. To separate or disunite; to sunder.

    It [a word] was divorced from its old sense.
    --Earle.

  3. To make away; to put away.

    Nothing but death Shall e'er divorce my dignities.
    --Shak.

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divorcing

vb. (present participle of divorce English)

Usage examples of "divorcing".

Uncle Paddy lying there half dead-Travis telling me we're marrying and divorcing in the same breath.

You'd no more than left the bed when you spoke of divorcing me with your fine lady.

Uncle Paddy lying there half dead—Travis telling me we're marrying and divorcing in the same breath.

The naïve novelist who comes out to work on his film script, gets dazzled by Hollywood, faked out of his shoes by producers, directors and studio heads and then falls for a starlet and wrecks his life by divorcing his wife of twenty years for a broad who had screwed every cast­ing director in town just for openers.

He has no sisters, he has no money, he’s not divorcing me, he used the firm’s money to take you to Puerto Rico and New York and to pay the expenses of this house.

His wife and his children might raid his sock drawer, Alden had said, but he drew the line at his grownup, divorcing sister, which was not very brotherly of him.

He intended to write a novel about a fictional actress named Mary Andrea Finley, based on a true person named Mary Andrea Finley, who in real life had spent the last four years successfully preventing Tom Krome from divorcing her.

My husband honored me by not divorcing me or casting me out as he should have done.

She'd been thinking about it a lot, and divorcing Matt was definitely the right move.

He had no clue that as soon as she announced they were divorcing he would return to being a nobody.

She'd call Faye and instruct her to put out an announcement that she was divorcing Matt Seel.

Why would she have attempted to persuade him not to divorce her when divorcing her had so evidently been his intent all along?