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separate
adjective as in disconnected
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Strong matches
abstracted, apportioned, detached, disassociated, disembodied, disjointed, distributed, disunited, divided, divorced, loose, marked, parted, partitioned, removed, scattered, severed, sundered
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apart, asunder, cut apart, cut in two, discrete, distant, divergent, far between, in halves, put asunder, set apart, set asunder, unattached, unconnected
adjective as in alone, individual
verb as in remove something from group; keep or set apart
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cleave, dichotomize, disentangle, disjoin, disjoint, dissect, dissever, distribute, intersect, part, rupture, sunder, uncouple, undo
Weak matches
break off, come apart, come away, come between, split up, uncombine
verb as in isolate, segregate
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assign, classify, comb, compartment, compartmentalize, discriminate, distribute, group, interval, intervene, island, order, seclude, sequester, sift, sort, space, winnow
Weak matches
close off, draw apart, put on one side, rope off, single out, split up, stand between
verb as in part company in a romantic or other relationship
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bifurcate, depart, detach, discontinue, disengage, disunify, disunite, diverge, drop, part, uncouple
Weak matches
break it off, break off, dedomicile, go away, go different ways, go separate ways, pull out, split up, take leave, unlink, untie the knot
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Example Sentences
There is, however, a separate wing of AQAP designed to inspire their followers to conduct attacks against the West.
My younger, straighter-than-an-arrow son was stopped and arrested in two separate jurisdictions a few years ago.
We separate the search for justice from the search for truth at our peril.
“I never felt that culture and the arts were separate from politics,” he says.
“She was hot-headed, had her own way of doing things,” Gill said—and so, he left to form a separate militia group.
It was an error not to separate borrowing entirely from monetary issues.
He devoured it whole with a kind of visual gulp—a flash; the entire meaning first, then lines, then separate words.
By a device resorted to in each separate case to help make a more vivid First Impression.
It has one separate room where poor Spanish women are treated, which generally has from twelve to twenty women.
Therefore, every piece had its own separate voice in exact proportion to the amount of trouble spent upon it.
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On this page you'll find 389 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to separate, such as: free, independent, isolated, sovereign, abstracted, and apportioned.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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