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etween Church and State is not recognized. 2 section,<br />

compartment, segment; partition, separation: Egg crates have<br />

144 divisions. 3 branch, department, sector, section, unit,<br />

group, arm; part, set, category, class, classification: The<br />

textile division of the company lost money last year. 4<br />

boundary (line), border, borderline, frontier, margin, line,<br />

dividing line: Where is the division between good and evil? 5<br />

discord, disagreement, upset, conflict, strife, disunity,<br />

disunion: The issue of equal rights has led to much division<br />

within the movement.<br />

divorce n. 1 separation, split, split-up, dissolution, severance,<br />

disunion, break-up: Their divorce after twenty years surprised<br />

everyone.<br />

--v. 2 separate, divide, split (up), part, sever, detach,<br />

dissociate, disassociate; dissolve: A splinter group has<br />

divorced itself from the main party. We were divorced last year.<br />

dizzy adj. 1 giddy, vertiginous, light-headed, faint, dazed,<br />

tottering, unsteady, reeling, tipsy, Colloq woozy: I felt dizzy<br />

after going down the helter-skelter. 2 confused, silly, giddy,<br />

empty-headed, scatterbrained, muddled, befuddled, flighty,<br />

feather-headed, feather-brained, rattle-brained, hare-brained,<br />

frivolous: He is dizzy with power.<br />

4.4 dock...<br />

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dock n. 1 wharf, pier, berth, jetty, quay: We went to the dock to<br />

see them off.<br />

--v. 2 (drop) anchor, berth, tie up, moor, land, put in: The<br />

ship docks at noon.<br />

doctor n. 1 physician, medical practitioner, M.D., general<br />

practitioner, G.P., Colloq medic, medico, doc, sawbones, bones:<br />

You ought to see a doctor about that cough.<br />

--v. 2 treat, attend, medicate; cure, heal; practise medicine:<br />

She knows very little about doctoring children, in spite of<br />

having worked as a general practitioner. 3 mend, repair, patch

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