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Trennung — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • breakup noun The end of a romantic relationship.
  • segregation noun The enforced separation of people into different groups, especially by race, and the denial of equal treatment that goes with it.
  • separation noun The act or state of two or more things or people being kept or held apart.
  • severance noun The act of ending or cutting off a relationship, connection, or employment.

Senses

Trennung is used for these senses in English:

  • breakup The act of breaking up; disintegration or division.
  • breakup The termination of a friendship or a romantic relationship.
  • divisiveness The characteristic of being divisive.
  • segregation (mineralogy) Separation from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive or adhesive attraction or the crystallizing process.
  • separation The act of disuniting two or more things, or the condition of being separated.
  • severance The act of severing or the state of being severed.
  • severance A separation.

breakup — full definition

  1. noun The end of a romantic relationship.
  2. noun The act of something splitting apart or coming to an end.

segregation — full definition

  1. noun The enforced separation of people into different groups, especially by race, and the denial of equal treatment that goes with it.
  2. noun The act of keeping things or people apart and organized into separate groups.
  3. noun In genetics, the process by which paired versions of a gene separate so each parent passes on only one copy to their offspring.

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