SUNDER DEFINITIONS - 13 definitions found
sunder v 1: break apart or in two, using violence sunder nursed drusen Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) sunder verb (sundered; sundering) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English gesundrian, syndrian; akin to Old High German suntarōn to sunder, Old English sundor apart, Latin sine without, Sanskrit sanutar away Date: before 12th century transitive verb to break apart or in two ; separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space intransitive verb to become parted, disunited, or severed Synonyms: see separate Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary sunder (sunders, sundering, sundered) If people or things are sundered, they are separated or split by something. (LITERARY) The city is being sundered by racial tension... Police moved in to separate the two groups, already sundered by distrust. VERB: usu passive, be V-ed, V-ed English Explanatory Dictionary sunder ˈsʌndə v.tr. & intr. archaic or literary øin sunder apart. [OE sundrian, f. asundrian etc.: in sunder f. ME f. o(n)sunder ASUNDER] Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Sunder \Sun"der\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sundered; p. pr. & vb. n. Sundering.] [OE. sundren, AS. sundrain (in [=a]sundrain, gesundrain), from sundor asunder, separately, apart; akin to D. zonder, prep., without, G. sonder separate, as prep., without, sondern but, OHG. suntar separately, Icel. sundr asunder, Sw. & Dan. s["o]nder, Goth. sundr[=o] alone, separately.] To disunite in almost any manner, either by rending, cutting, or breaking; to part; to put or keep apart; to separate; to divide; to sever; as, to sunder a rope; to sunder a limb; to sunder friends. It is sundered from the main land by a sandy plain. --Carew. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Sunder \Sun"der\, v. i. To part; to separate. [R.] --Shak. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Sunder \Sun"der\, n. [See Sunder, v. t., and cf. Asunder.] A separation into parts; a division or severance. In sunder, into parts. ``He breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder.'' --Ps. xlvi. 9. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Sunder \Sun"der\, v. t. To expose to the sun and wind. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms sunder v. a. Disunite, disjoin, dispart, disconnect, part, separate, dissociate, divide, sever, dissever, break, part, tear asunder. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 70 Moby Thesaurus words for "sunder": amputate, atomize, ax, bisect, break to pieces, break up, butcher, carve, chop, cleave, cut, cut away, cut in two, cut off, demolish, dichotomize, disassemble, disintegrate, disjoin, disjoint, dismantle, dissect, dissever, disunite, divide, divorce, excise, fissure, fragment, gash, hack, halve, hew, incise, jigsaw, lance, make mincemeat of, pare, part, pick to pieces, prune, pull in pieces, pull to pieces, pulverize, reduce to rubble, rend, rive, saw, scissor, sever, shatter, slash, slice, slit, smash, snip, split, take apart, tear, tear apart, tear to pieces, tear to shreds, tear to tatters, total, unbuild, undo, unmake, whittle, wrack up, wreck |
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