Sunder
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈsʌndɚ/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Sunder is an adjective meaning (transitive) To break or separate or to break apart, especially with force.
Meaning
(transitive) To break or separate or to break apart, especially with force.
More Meanings
- (intransitive) To part, separate.
- (UK, dialect, dated, transitive) To expose to the sun and wind.
- a separation into parts; a division or severance
- (dialectal or obsolete) Sundry; separate; different.
Example Sentences
The world, a good deal of it, sundered, scorched.
Two souls, the shores wave-mocked of sundering seas: — Such are we now.
In Taran's hand the sundered bone had turned into gray dust, which he cast aside.
… Carlo finally saw Everything, before it sunders into things; he saw Knowledge before it sunders into knowing; he saw Integrity before it sunders in integrals; he saw Unity before it sunders into units.
Word Forms
- sunders
- sundering
- sundered
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include severed, distract, parted, disrupt, divisory, dirempt.
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