divorcer

English

Etymology

divorce + -er

Noun

divorcer (plural divorcers)

  1. The person or cause that produces or effects a divorce.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for divorcer in
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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French

Etymology

divorce + -er

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /di.vɔʁ.se/

Verb

divorcer

  1. (transitive) to divorce (to legally dissolve a marriage)
  2. (reflexive, se divorcer) to get divorced, to divorce one another

Conjugation

This verb is part of a group of -er verbs for which ‘c’ is softened to a ‘ç’ before the vowels ‘a’ and ‘o’.

Further reading


Norman

Verb

divorcer

  1. (Jersey) to divorce
  2. (Jersey, reflexive, s'divorcer) to get divorced

Synonyms

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