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What does the word separate mean?

    Part of speech: verb transitive

  • To disconnect; dissever.

    • Part of speech: verb transitive

  • To keep apart.

    • Part of speech: verb transitive

  • To consider separately.

    • Part of speech: verb

  • To be disconnected.

    • Part of speech: noun

  • Separateness.

    • Part of speech: adjective

  • Existing apart from others; considered by itself; unconnected or disconnected.

Usage examples for separate

  1. I will not let him separate me from Robert- never, never! – Red Hair by Elinor Glyn
  2. They lay separate and apart. – The Hollow of Her Hand by George Barr McCutcheon
  3. Judge, don't forget you and I are due to have a little conversation before we separate. – The Enchanted Canyon by Honoré Willsie Morrow