to separate

Synonyms

detach

Examples

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed. Elbert Hubbard

There are problems and there are children. It is our aim to separate the two. Anthony Horowitz

Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry. Salvatore Quasimodo

To separate the men from the boys. Portuguese Proverb

You have to separate the chaff from the wheat. Latin Proverb

To separate is to die a little. Swedish Proverb

Words in the phrase

to separate

Close letter words and terms

to see the back of to seem to sell to set to set forth to set forth with