List of 426 Sets of Synonyms - How they Differ - Total of 2307 Words - 347

SYNONYMS: separate, divide, part, sever, sunder, divorce.
These verbs are compared as they mean to become or cause to become parted, disconnected, or disunited.

Separate Thursday, October 22, 2009applies both to putting apart and to keeping apart: The Pyrenees separate France and Spain. The child's parents have separated.
Divide implies separation by or as if by cutting, splitting, or branching into parts, portions, or shares; the term is often used to refer to separation into opposing or hostile groups: We divided the orange into segments. 'A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Part refers most often to the separation of closely associated persons or things: None shall part us from each other.
Sever usually implies abruptness and force in the cutting off of a part from the whole or the breaking up of an association or a relationship: His head was nearly severed from his body. The United States severed diplomatic relations with Cuba in 1961.
Sunder stresses violent tearing or wrenching apart: The country was sundered by civil war into two embattled states.
Divorce implies the separation of the elements of a relationship or union: There were a priest and a soldier, two classes of men circumstantially divorced from the kind and homely ties of life.