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Definition of separate : 1. Disunited from the body; disembodied; as, a separate spirit; the separate state of souls.
2. Divided from another or others; disjoined; disconnected; separated; - said of things once connected.
3. To come between; to keep apart by occupying the space between; to lie between; as, the Mediterranean Sea separates Europe and Africa.
4. To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.
5. To part; to become disunited; to be disconnected; to withdraw from one another; as, the family separated.
6. To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service.
7. Unconnected; not united or associated; distinct; - said of things that have not been connected.

Synonyms:

go to pieces, joint custody, ruin, stop, develop, associate, divulge, screen off, recognise, fragmentize, take apart, unlike, distract, alternative, fork, recognize, concede, crack up, set off, die, let on, fracture, smash, crock up, get out, unwrap, collapse, crack, infract, key, pitchfork, intermit, come adrift, fraction, make out, offprint, take down, fragmentise, evidence, bust, adjourn, go away, single, specialize, crash, steal, ramify, crumble, discover, mark, break open, give way, break dance, go, reveal, recess, tell, affiliate, assign, correct, come off, divide off, name, relegate, transgress, asunder, in isolation, take away, damp, assist, cave in, check, contrasting, conflicting, decompose, dissolution, assemble, reissue, pause, give away, know apart, set-apart, disjoined, calve, withdraw, kick downstairs, disjunct, recite, erupt, sort out, crystallize, co-respondent, set out, discontinue, founder, set forth, rive, isolated, break in, do with, diverse, speciate, signalize, enlighten, fall in, recount, consort, specialise, recrudesce, break away, stand-alone, demote, abstracted, describe, snap off, spot, differ, collide, alimony, straighten out, apart, unintegrated, branch, start out, dissipate, pick out, clear up, burst, disrupt, demobilize, breach, collect, key out, weaken, reprinting, pick, screen out, signalise, depart, be nothing like, vary, divert, split up, segment, intervene, state, say, break off, contrast, isolable, come apart, start, undo, secernate, abstract, shed light on, conk out, get around, assure, reprint, go bad, identify, enjoin, crystallise, crystalize, same, close off, various, fail, disclose, aggregate, narrate, know, cut off, better, violate, spread out, winnow, give out, attack, severalize, purloin, muster out, fall apart, discharge, include, let out, expose, break out, ex, resolve, soften, interrupt, wear out, complexify, stand out, wear, discipline, continue, assort, deadlock, contact, freestanding, severalise, chalk something up, bite off, access, break apart, secern, illuminate, section, give, bury, offend, bankrupt, stick out, carve up, disagree, dissever, furcate, dispel, break down, appropriate, tell apart, bump, free, break/cut loose, dampen, crystalise, sieve, cushion, bring out, as distinct from, come unstuck, go against, keep, single out, leave, clear, unconnected, break up, take off, elucidate, all

divorce, disunite, estrange, push away, distance, divide, disaffect, alienate

disproportionate, nonuniform, different, unfair, lopsided, disparate, discrete, uneven, dissimilar, unequal

spread, deflect, veer

dislocate, diffuse, distribute, disperse, dole, diverge, refract, evanesce, disburse, disorder, evaporate, scatter, diffract, dissolve, radiate

dispersing, deflecting, divergent

extrinsic, inapplicable, impertinent, other, extraneous, dissociated, irrelevant, estranged, eerie, separated, foreign, extraterrestrial, disconnected, outer, strange, unaffiliated, foreign-born, nonessential, alien, immaterial, detached, outside, outlandish, parenthetical, removed, inadmissible, segregated, exotic, unessential, unallied, disjoint, external, inappropriate, unrelated, disaffiliated

disenfranchised, remote

boycott, cloister, extirpate, deport, cordon, eject, blackball, evict, exclude, ostracize, sequester, excommunicate, confine, isolate, exile, disbar, remove, closet, expatriate, extradite, oust, reject, seclude, expel, banish, eliminate, blacklist

establish, collate, program, rationalize, unify, devise, categorize, grade, balance, place, plot, score, array, adjust, methodize, mediate, frame, support, subordinate, maintain, schedule, orchestrate, normalize, cast, structure, organize, marshal, sort, plan, arrange, compose, systematize, regulate, prepare, screen, shape, settle, set, pigeonhole, right, classify, rank, schematize, group, design, stratify, fix, integrate, chart, class, sift, form, scheme, order, unsnarl, type, control, harmonize, stabilize, rate

sundered, dissect, cut, alienated, individual, disarticulate, distinct, axe, severed, disaffiliate, pare, amputate, scissor, incise, disassembled, disassemble, unglued, disintegrate, autonomous, unglue, unfix, rip, unhinge, bisect, fragmentary, disintegrated, independent, slice

discern, differentiate, distinguish, discriminate

dismantle, break, excise, rupture, rend, partition, disassociate, part, segregate, detach, cleave, dissociate, split, disjoin, sunder, halve, sever, uncouple, disconnect, disengage, fragment, insulate

Usage examples:

• There were various separate parties sitting at these tables taking breakfast. - "Rollo in Switzerland", Jacob Abbott.
• To separate us now after we've been together three years- And it isn't as though we were awfully bad last year. - "Just Patty", Jean Webster.
• " And I cannot separate from Isaac yet," pleaded Aimee. - "The Hour and the Man An Historical Romance", Harriet Martineau.