verb
- Go one's own way; move apart.
- usage: "The friends separated after the party"
- Discontinue an association or relation; go different ways.
- usage: "The business partners broke over a tax question"; "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"; "My friend and I split up"
- Leave.
- usage: "The family took off for Florida"
- Come apart.
- usage: "The two pieces that we had glued separated"
- Force, take, or pull apart.
- usage: "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea"
adjective
- Having a margin incised almost to the base so as to create distinct divisions or lobes. .
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