Unscramble separated

Definition of separated

adjective:

• being or feeling set or kept apart from others; ; - Sherwood Anderson; "she felt detached from the group", "could not remain the isolated figure he had been", "thought of herself as alone and separated from the others", "had a set-apart feeling". Synonyms: detached, isolated, set-apart.
• spaced apart. Synonyms: spaced.
• separated at the joint; "a dislocated knee", "a separated shoulder". Synonyms: disjointed, dislocated.
• no longer connected or joined; "a detached part", "on one side of the island was a hugh rock, almost detached", "the separated spacecraft will return to their home bases". Synonyms: detached.

verb:

• act as a barrier between; stand between; "The mountain range divides the two countries". Synonyms: divide, separate.
• force, take, or pull apart; "He separated the fighting children", "Moses parted the Red Sea". Synonyms: disunite, divide, part, separate.
• mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple". Synonyms: differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, separate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart.
• separate into parts or portions; "divide the cake into three equal parts", "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I". Synonyms: carve up, dissever, divide, separate, split, split up. Antonyms: unite.
• divide into components or constituents; "Separate the wheat from the chaff". Synonyms: separate.
• arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?". Synonyms: assort, class, classify, separate, sort, sort out.
• make a division or separation. Synonyms: divide, separate.
• discontinue an association or relation; go different ways; "The business partners broke over a tax question", "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage", "My friend and I split up". Synonyms: break, break up, part, separate, split, split up.
• go one's own way; move apart; "The friends separated after the party". Synonyms: part, separate, split.
• become separated into pieces or fragments; "The figurine broke", "The freshly baked loaf fell apart". Synonyms: break, come apart, fall apart, separate, split up.
• treat differently on the basis of sex or race. Synonyms: discriminate, separate, single out.
• come apart; "The two pieces that we had glued separated". Synonyms: divide, part, separate.
• divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; "The road forks". Synonyms: branch, fork, furcate, ramify, separate.

Related words

arborise, arborize, avulse, bifurcate, break, burst, bust, calve, canton, card, catalog, catalogue, chip, contrast, count, crack, crush, cut, decompose, decouple, demarcate, detach, dialyse, dialyze, dichotomise, dichotomize, diffract, disadvantage, disarticulate, disassociate, discerp, disconnect, discriminate, disfavor, disfavour, disjoin, disjoint, dismember, dispel, disperse, dissipate, dissociate, disunify, disunite, divorce, extract, filter, filtrate, format, fractionate, fragment, fragmentise, fragmentize, gerrymander, gin, grade, group, individualise, individualize, initialise, initialize, insulate, isolate, joint, know, label, ladder, lot, macerate, number, paragraph, parcel, partition, peptise, peptize, pigeonhole, polarise, polarize, puncture, rail, reclassify, redline, reduce, refer, run, rupture, scatter, secede, section, sectionalise, sectionalize, segment, segregate, separate, sequester, sequestrate, sever, severalise, severalize, sex, sieve, sift, size, sliver, smash, snap, splinter, split, stamp, stereotype, strain, stratify, subdivide, tear, tease, triangulate, trifurcate, twig, unitise, unitize, wash, zone.

Words nearby

separate.

Rhymes with

abbreviated, accelerated, accumulated, activated, adulterated, affiliated, aggravated, aggregated, agitated, alienated, alleviated, amalgamated, animated, annihilated, anticipated, antiquated, appreciated, articulated, asphyxiated, assassinated.