Past tense of divorce
regular verb
The past tense of divorce is divorced. The past participle is also divorced.
Forms of divorce
| Base form (V1) | divorce /dɪˈvɔːs/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | divorced /dɪˈvɔː(ɹ)st/ |
| Past participle (V3) | divorced /dɪˈvɔː(ɹ)st/ |
| Present participle | divorcing |
| Third person singular | divorces |
Divorced in a sentence
- Lucy divorced Steve when she discovered that he had been unfaithful.
- Edna and Simon divorced last year; he got the house, and she retained the business.
- Did you know Michelle and Jack were getting divorced? ― Yes, I knew.From the entry know
- My brother was a father to me after my parents got divorced.From the entry father
- To everyone's surprise, after being divorced for ten years the couple eloped to Las Vegas and remarried.From the entry remarry
Meaning of divorce
- noun The legal dissolution of a marriage.
- noun A separation of connected things.
- noun The separation of a bonded pair of animals.
Questions about the past tense of divorce
- What is the past tense of divorce?
- The past tense of divorce is divorced.
- What is the past participle of divorce?
- The past participle of divorce is divorced.
- Is divorce a regular or irregular verb?
- Divorce is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: divorce (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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