separated

Meanings

• act as a barrier between; stand between
• force, take, or pull apart
  • "He separated the fighting children"
• mark as different
• separate into parts or portions
• divide into components or constituents
• arrange or order by classes or categories
• make a division or separation
• discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
  • "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"
• go one's own way; move apart
  • "The friends separated after the party"
• become separated into pieces or fragments
• treat differently on the basis of sex or race
• come apart
  • "The two pieces that we had glued separated"
• divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
• being or feeling set or kept apart from others; ; - Sherwood Anderson
  • "thought of herself as alone and separated from the others"
• spaced apart
• separated at the joint
  • "a separated shoulder"
• no longer connected or joined
  • "the separated spacecraft will return to their home bases"

Synonyms

assort, branch, break, break up, carve up, class, classify, come apart, detached, differentiate, discriminate, disjointed, dislocated, dissever, distinguish, disunite, divide, fall apart, fork, furcate, isolated, part, ramify, secern, secernate, separate, set-apart, severalise, severalize, single out, sort, sort out, spaced, split, split up, tell, tell apart