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scheiden — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • dissociate verb In psychology, to become mentally detached from your thoughts, feelings, body or surroundings, so that experience feels unreal or distant. It often happens under stress or trauma.
  • divorce noun The legal ending of a marriage.
  • part noun A piece or portion of something larger.
  • separate verb To divide something into parts, or to keep things or people apart from each other.

Senses

scheiden is used for these senses in English:

  • dissociate (chemistry, intransitive) To undergo dissociation.
  • divorce (transitive) To end one's own marriage to (a person) in this way.
  • separate (transitive) To disunite from a group or mass; to disconnect.

dissociate — full definition

  1. verb In psychology, to become mentally detached from your thoughts, feelings, body or surroundings, so that experience feels unreal or distant. It often happens under stress or trauma.
  2. verb To separate yourself from a person, group or idea, especially publicly, so as not to be associated with them.
  3. verb In chemistry, to split into smaller particles such as ions, atoms or simpler molecules, often reversibly.

divorce — full definition

  1. noun The legal ending of a marriage.
  2. verb To legally end one's marriage.
  3. verb To separate two things that were previously connected.

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