Divorce, beheaded, died, or lived it up (7)
I believe the answer is:
partied
'lived it up' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are past participle verbs.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I can't see?
'divorce beheaded died' is the wordplay.
'divorce' becomes 'part' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'beheaded' means to remove the first letter (the head of the word is removed).
'died' with its first letter removed is 'ied'.
'part'+'ied'='PARTIED'
'or' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for partied that I've seen before include "Celebrated" , "Had a good time" .)