divorce something from something
divorcé
noun[ C ]
us/dɪˌvɔrˈseɪ, -ˌvoʊr-, -ˈsi/
a man whose marriage officially ended while his wife was still alive

Examples of divorce

divorce
She then divorced her husband who later died.
The point is not an abstract one, as it affected, for example, the status of foreign divorces.
Over time, divorces have occurred at increasingly shorter durations of marriage.
In 1989, the number of children under 16 with parents who divorced was 148 thousand.
The new public world was one in which power was increasingly divorced from the family.
The introduction of the frame divorced the structure from the load-bearing function of the wall, and freed the two elements.
Seventeen of these initially married families divorced between the initial assessment and the young adult assessment.
Ninety-six triadic interactions were available because 12 couples had divorced.
The registers indicate dates of divorces and the abandonment of women (men who were abandoned by their wives were not registered as such).
Furthermore, becoming divorced resulted in increases in drinking, suggesting that the effects of marital dissolution during young adulthood are important.
Isolated utterances have been divorced from their context, a practice which is unpardonable in the history of ideas.
Maybe this is because linguistic investigations tend to be highly theoretical - and divorced from most people's immediate interests in language.
In an age of the ever-powerful, omnipotent and omnipresent nation state, culture cannot be divorced from the wider political environment.
The relationship between dealer and client is not always divorced from the occult.
The shared assumption of legal professionals, therapeutic professionals and divorcing parents alike is that such a decision calls for therapeutic, not legal, expertise.
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contested divorce
For a five-year period to operate in the case of a contested divorce puts the non-consenting party in a very strong bargaining position.
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