separate

separate
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verb
1 move/keep people/things apart
ADVERB
▪ completely
▪ carefully
▪ clearly
▪

These two branches of the science have now become clearly separated.

▪ effectively
▪ easily
▪

One cannot easily separate moral, social and political issues.

▪ formally
▪ legally
▪ mechanically
▪

Mechanically separated meat made from cattle and sheep has now been banned.

▪ geographically, physically, spatially
VERB + SEPARATE
▪ attempt to, try to
▪ be difficult to, be hard to, be impossible to
▪

It was impossible to separate the rival fans.

PREPOSITION
▪ from
▪

The boys are separated from the girls.

▪ into
▪

I separated the documents into two piles.

PHRASES
▪ sharply separated, totally separated, widely separated
▪

The disciplines of science and engineering are not always sharply separated.

▪

an island resort totally separated from the mainland

▪

The two groups became widely separated.

▪

The two populations are widely separated geographically.

2 stop living together
ADVERB
▪ legally
▪ recently
▪

He had recently separated from his wife.

▪ forcibly
▪

Slave parents were forcibly separated from their children.

VERB + SEPARATE
▪ decide to
PREPOSITION
▪ from
▪

She is separated from her husband.

Separate is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑chasm, ↑divide, ↑gap, ↑gulf, ↑line, ↑partition, ↑strait, ↑wall
Separate is used with these nouns as the object: ↑egg, ↑strand, ↑twin
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adj.
VERBS
▪ be
▪ become
▪ remain
▪ keep sb/sth
▪

The women are kept separate from the men.

▪ consider sth
ADVERB
▪ somewhat, very
▪

I kept my two lives very separate.

▪ essentially, largely
▪

The two groups are essentially separate and independent.

▪ completely, entirely, quite, totally, wholly
▪

The waste water is kept entirely separate from the rainwater.

▪ apparently
▪ previously
▪

to merge the two previously separate businesses

▪ geographically, physically
PREPOSITION
▪ from
▪

a lifestyle which is quite separate from that of her parents

PHRASES
▪ go your separate ways
▪

They decided to go their separate ways after being together for five years.

Separate is used with these nouns: ↑account, ↑bedroom, ↑category, ↑compartment, ↑component, ↑cubicle, ↑direction, ↑discipline, ↑entity, ↑entrance, ↑existence, ↑identity, ↑incident, ↑occasion, ↑part, ↑property, ↑section, ↑sheet, ↑sphere, ↑strand, ↑volume, ↑way

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