separates

verbremove something from group; keep or set apart
verbisolate, segregate
verbpart company in a romantic

Synonyms for separates

verb remove something from group; keep or set apart

Antonyms for separates

Word Origin & History

"articles of (women's) clothing that may be worn in various combinations," 1945, from separate (adj.). As a noun, separate is attested from 1610s in the sense "separatist."

Example Sentences for separates

The gulf which separates parents and children is one which the parents must cross.

Such is the situation of a woman who separates from her husband.

Where, truly, in man, is the line that separates courage from cowardice?

Would you know the measure of the interval which separates them?

And how enormous is the distance which separates the just from the unjust in regard to pleasure and pain!

He separates the righteous from those who must forever be sundered from their God.

Nor have they ever been answered, nor can they be answered by any one else who separates the phenomenal from the real.

I wish—I hate to think I am the cause which separates you two.

It separates the individual from all party, and unites him at the same time to the race.

Its differentia is that which separates it from the unit of common humanity.