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
- 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.
- verb To separate yourself from a person, group or idea, especially publicly, so as not to be associated with them.
- verb In chemistry, to split into smaller particles such as ions, atoms or simpler molecules, often reversibly.
divorce — full definition
- noun The legal ending of a marriage.
- verb To legally end one's marriage.
- verb To separate two things that were previously connected.
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