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  1. transitive verb To set or keep apart; disunite.
  2. transitive verb To space apart; scatter: small farms that were separated one from another by miles of open land.
  3. transitive verb To sort: separate mail by postal zones.

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  1. Middle English separaten, from Latin sēparātus, past participle of sēparāre : sē-, apart; see s(w)e- in Indo-European roots + parāre, to prepare; see perə-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin separatus, past participle of separare (later Italian separare = Spanish Portuguese separar = Provencal separar, sebrar = French séparer and sevrer (later English sever)), separate (cf. separ, separate, different), from se -, apart, + parare, provide, arrange: see se- and pare. Cf. sever.
  2. from Latin separatus, past participle of separare, separate: see separate, v.
 

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/ˈsɛpərət/
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