Asunder

Quick meaning: Asunder is an adverb meaning Of two or more people or things:.

Meaning

Of two or more people or things:.

More Meanings

1. (also figurative) Into separate parts or pieces, often due to some violent action.
2. Apart from other people; individually, separately; specifically, in private, privately.
3. Chiefly in the form to know asunder: in a manner distinguishable from other similar things.
4. (transitive, archaic or literary) To set apart (one or more people or things) from other people or things; to put asunder, to separate, to sunder.
5. (obsolete) Different, unlike.

Example Sentences

to crack asunder torn asunder

[I]f your heart is rent asunder and you are truly penitent for what you did, Our Saviour will have mercy on you yet!

VVork'd on the VVreck, cut another Beam aſunder, and brought three great Fir Planks off from the Decks, vvhich I ty'd together, and made ſvvim on Shore, vvhen the Tide of Flood came on.

And he [Judas Iscariot] hath nowe poſſeſſed a plott of grounde with the rewarde off iniquyte. And when he was hanged⸝ braſt [burst] a ſondre in the myddes⸝ and all his bowels guſſhed out.

Word Forms

• asundre
• asunders
• asundering
• asundered

Synonyms for asunder

Depending on context, synonyms include apart, piecemeal.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include apart, separate, sawn, perquire, together, lumpingly.

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