(di·vôrs′, -vōrs′) noun
1. Legal dissolution of a marriage relation.
2. Hence, severance; separation.
3. A decree dissolving a marriage.
—v. ·vorced, ·vorc·ing v.t.
1. To free by legal process from the relationship of husband and wife.
2. To sunder; sever; separate.
3. To obtain a legal divorce from.
—v.i.
4. To get a divorce. [<F <L divortium <divertere divert]
—di·vorce′ment noun
—di·vorc′er noun

(di·vôr′sā′, -vōr′-, di·vôr′sā, -vōr′-) noun
A divorced man.
—di·vor′cée′ noun fem. [<F, pp. of divorcer divorce]