Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - divorce

~1 n 1 the legal ending of a marriage  (In Britain, one in three marriages ends in divorce. | get a divorce)  (Why doesn't she get a divorce? | divorce case (=the legal process of divorce) | divorce proceedings (=the official actions to legally end your marriage) | divorce rate (=the number of divorces each year) | divorce settlement (=the legal decision about how much money, property etc you get after a divorce))  (- compare separation (2)) 2 a separation of ideas, subjects, values etc + between  (the divorce between power and ideology) ~2 v 1 if someone divorces their husband or wife, or if two people divorce, they legally end their marriage  (David's parents divorced when he was six.) 2 to separate two ideas, subjects, values etc completely  (divorce sth from)  (It is difficult to divorce sport from politics. | be divorced from reality (=not based on real things or sensible thinking))  (Some of his ideas are completely divorced from reality.)