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Defenition of the word separate

    • Defenition of the word separate

      • To move away from each other.
      • To cause something or someone to move away from something or someone else.
      • To divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
      • To sever the union of.
      • To see someone or something as different from others; to discern or comprehend.
      • not living together as man and wife; "decided to live apart"; "maintaining separate households"; "they are separated"
      • divide into two or more branches; "The road forks"
      • become separated into pieces or fragments; "The figurine broke"; "The freshly baked loaf fell apart"
      • arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?"
      • treat differently on the basis of sex or race
      • have the connection undone; having become separate
      • mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple"
      • separate into parts or portions; "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I"
      • standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything; "a freestanding bell tower"; "a house with a separate garage"
      • characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing; "an individual serving"; "separate rooms"; "single occupancy"; "a single bed"
      • a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication
      • separated according to race, sex, class, or religion; "separate but equal"; "girls and boys in separate classes"
      • independent; not united or joint; "a problem consisting of two separate issues"; "they went their separate ways"; "formed a separate church"
      • a garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments
      • divide into components or constituents; "Separate the wheat from the chaff"
      • force, take, or pull apart; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea"
      • make a division or separation
      • act as a barrier between; stand between: "The mountain range divides the two countries"
      • come apart; "The two pieces that we had glued separated"
      • go one's own away; move apart; "The friends separated after the party"
      • discontinue an association or relation; go different ways; "The business partners broke over a tax question"; "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"; "My friend and I split up"
      • individual and distinct; "pegged down each separate branch to the earth"; "a gift for every single child"
      • divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; "The road forks"
      • go one''s own away; move apart; "The friends separated after the party"
      • act as a barrier between; stand between; "The mountain range divides the two countries"
      • divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
      • become separated into pieces or fragments
      • mark as different
      • arrange or order by classes or categories
      • divide into components or constituents
      • force, take, or pull apart
      • come apart
      • go one's own way; move apart
      • discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
      • separate into parts or portions
      • act as a barrier between; stand between
      • standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything
      • separated according to race, sex, class, or religion
      • independent; not united or joint

    Synonyms for the word separate

      • apart
      • assort
      • branch
      • branch out
      • break
      • break away
      • break free
      • break up
      • carve up
      • class
      • classify
      • come apart
      • detach
      • detached
      • differentiate
      • disconnect
      • discrete
      • discriminate
      • disjoined
      • dispersed
      • dissever
      • distinct
      • distinguish
      • disunite
      • divide
      • fall apart
      • fork
      • freestanding
      • independent
      • individual
      • isolated
      • offprint
      • part
      • pull out
      • ramify
      • reprint
      • secede
      • secern
      • secernate
      • separated
      • severalize
      • single
      • single out
      • sort
      • sort out
      • split
      • split up
      • take apart
      • tell
      • tell apart
      • unattached
      • unconnected
      • undo
      • withdraw

    Similar words in the separate

      • abstracted
      • apart
      • apart(p)
      • asunder
      • asunder(p)
      • branch out
      • break up
      • broaden
      • decompose
      • detached
      • discrete
      • disjoint
      • disjunct
      • distinct
      • diversify
      • divided
      • independent
      • individual
      • isolable
      • isolated
      • other
      • removed
      • segregated
      • separate
      • separated
      • separately
      • separates's
      • set-apart
      • unconnected
      • unintegrated
      • unshared

    Hyponyms for the word separate

      • arborise
      • arborize
      • avulse
      • Balkanise
      • Balkanize
      • bifurcate
      • break
      • break apart
      • break away
      • break down
      • break off
      • break open
      • break up
      • break with
      • burst
      • bust
      • calve
      • canton
      • card
      • catalog
      • catalogue
      • chip
      • chip off
      • close off
      • come away
      • come off
      • compartmentalise
      • compartmentalize
      • contradistinguish
      • contrast
      • count
      • crack
      • crush
      • cut
      • cut up
      • decompose
      • decouple
      • demarcate
      • detach
      • dialyse
      • dialyze
      • dichotomise
      • dichotomize
      • diffract
      • disadvantage
      • disarticulate
      • disassociate
      • discerp
      • disconnect
      • discriminate
      • disfavor
      • disfavour
      • disjoin
      • disjoint
      • dismember
      • dispel
      • disperse
      • dissipate
      • dissociate
      • disunify
      • disunite
      • divorce
      • extract
      • filter
      • filter out
      • filtrate
      • format
      • fractionate
      • fragment
      • fragmentise
      • fragmentize
      • gerrymander
      • gin
      • give the axe
      • give the bounce
      • give the gate
      • grade
      • group
      • hive off
      • individualise
      • individualize
      • initialise
      • initialize
      • insulate
      • isolate
      • joint
      • keep apart
      • know
      • know apart
      • label
      • ladder
      • lot
      • macerate
      • number
      • paragraph
      • parcel
      • partition
      • partition off
      • peptise
      • peptize
      • pigeonhole
      • polarise
      • polarize
      • puncture
      • rail
      • rail off
      • reclassify
      • redline
      • reduce
      • refer
      • run
      • rupture
      • scatter
      • secede
      • section
      • sectionalise
      • sectionalize
      • segment
      • segregate
      • separate
      • separate out
      • sequester
      • sequestrate
      • set apart
      • sever
      • severalise
      • severalize
      • sex
      • shut off
      • sieve
      • sift
      • single out
      • size
      • sliver
      • smash
      • snap
      • splinter
      • split
      • split up
      • spread out
      • stamp
      • stereotype
      • strain
      • stratify
      • subdivide
      • take apart
      • tear
      • tease
      • triangulate
      • trifurcate
      • twig
      • unitise
      • unitize
      • wash
      • zone

    Hypernyms for the word separate

      • article
      • categorise
      • categorize
      • change
      • change integrity
      • differentiate
      • displace
      • distinguish
      • diverge
      • garment
      • identify
      • move
      • place
      • secern
      • secernate
      • separate
      • severalise
      • severalize
      • tell
      • tell apart

    Antonyms for the word separate

      • joint
      • unify
      • unite

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