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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SUN'DER, v.t.
1. To part; to separate; to divide; to disunite in almost any manner, either by rending, cutting, or breaking; as, to sunder a rope or cord; to sunder a limb or joint; to sunder friends, or the ties of friendship. The executioner sunders the head from the body at a stroke. A mountain may be sundered by an earthquake.
Bring me lightning, give me thunder;
--Jove may kill, but ne'er shall sunder.
2. To expose to the sun. [Provincial in England.]
SUN'DER, n. In sunder, in tow.
He cutteth the spear in sunder. Psalms 46.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: break apart or in two, using violence

Merriam Webster's

verb (sundered; sundering) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English gesundrian, syndrian; akin to Old High German suntar?n 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 Reference Dictionary

v.tr. & intr. archaic or literary Phrases and idioms: in sunder apart. Etymology: OE sundrian, f. asundrian etc.: in sunder f. ME f. o(n)sunder ASUNDER

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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 1913 Dictionary

Sunder Sun"der, v. i. To part; to separate. [R.] --Shak.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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 1913 Dictionary

Sunder Sun"der, v. t. To expose to the sun and wind. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(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

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. Disunite, disjoin, dispart, disconnect, part, separate, dissociate, divide, sever, dissever, break, part, tear asunder.

Moby Thesaurus

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