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1. Being or feeling set or kept apart from others
   "thought of herself as alone and separated from the others"
   - detached, isolated, set-apart
    
2. Spaced apart
   - spaced
    
3. Separated at the joint
   "a separated shoulder"
   - disjointed, dislocated
    
4. No longer connected or joined
   "the separated spacecraft will return to their home bases"
   - detached

1. Act as a barrier between; stand between
   - divide
    
2. Force, take, or pull apart
   "He separated the fighting children"
   - disunite, divide, part
    
3. Mark as different
   - distinguish, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise [Brit], tell, tell apart
    
4. Separate into parts or portions
   - divide, split, split up, dissever, carve up
    
5. Divide into components or constituents
   "Separate the wheat from the chaff"
    
6. Arrange or order by classes or categories
   - classify, class, sort, assort, sort out
    
7. Make a division or separation
   - divide
    
8. Discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
   "The couple separated after 25 years of marriage"
   - part, split up, split, break, break up
    
9. Go one's own way; move apart
   "The friends separated after the party"
   - part, split
    
10. Become separated into pieces or fragments
    - break, split up, fall apart, come apart
     
11. Treat differently on the basis of sex or race
    - discriminate, single out
     
12. Come apart
    "The two pieces that we had glued separated"
    - divide, part
     
13. Divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
    - branch, ramify, fork, furcate

See also: distributed, fall, injured, separate, separation, separatist, separative, separator, unconnected

Type of: categorise [Brit], categorize, change, change integrity, displace, diverge, identify, move, place

Encyclopedia: Separate Separate, equal