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Adjective separated has 5 senses
- detached, isolated, separated, set-apart - being or feeling set or kept apart from others; "she felt detached from the group"; "could not remain the isolated figure he had been"- Sherwood Anderson; "thought of herself as alone and separated from the others"; "had a set-apart feeling"
Antonym: joint (indirect, via separate)
- separated, spaced - spaced apart
Antonym: concentrated (indirect, via distributed)
- apart, separate, separated - not living together as man and wife; "decided to live apart"; "maintaining separate households"; "they are separated"
Antonym: united (indirect, via divided)
- disjointed, dislocated, separated - separated at the joint; "a dislocated knee"; "a separated shoulder"
Antonym: uninjured (indirect, via injured)
- detached, separated - no longer connected or joined; "a detached part"; "on one side of the island was a hugh rock, almost detached"; "the separated spacecraft will return to their home bases"
Antonym: connected (indirect, via unconnected)
Verb separate has 13 senses
- separate, divide - act as a barrier between; stand between; "The mountain range divides the two countries"
Sample sentence:
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- separate, disunite, divide, part - force, take, or pull apart; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea"
--2 is one way to move, displace
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Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something from somebody
- distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell, tell apart - mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple"
--3 is one way to identify, place
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- divide, split, split up, separate, dissever, carve up - separate into parts or portions; "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I"
--4 is one way to change integrity
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- separate, divide, part - come apart; "The two pieces that we had glued separated"
--5 is one way to change
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- separate - divide into components or constituents; "Separate the wheat from the chaff"
--6 is one way to change integrity
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- classify, class, sort, assort, sort out, separate - arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?"
--7 is one way to categorize, categorise
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- break, separate, split up, fall apart, come apart - become separated into pieces or fragments; "The figurine broke"; "The freshly baked loaf fell apart"
--8 is one way to change integrity
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- separate, divide - make a division or separation
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- separate, part, split up, split, break, break up - 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"
Sample sentence:
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- separate, part, split - go one's own away; move apart; "The friends separated after the party"
--11 is one way to move
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- discriminate, separate, single out - treat differently on the basis of sex or race
--12 is one way to distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell, tell apart
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- branch, ramify, fork, furcate, separate - divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; "The road forks"
--13 is one way to diverge
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