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asunder

[ uh-suhn-der ]

adverb

  1. into separate parts; in or into pieces:

    Lightning split the old oak tree asunder.

  2. apart or widely separated:

    as wide asunder as the polar regions.



asunder

/ əˈsʌndə /

adverb

  1. postpositive in or into parts or pieces; apart

    to tear asunder

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of asunder1

First recorded before 1000; Middle English; Old English on sundrum “apart”; a- 1, sundry
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Word History and Origins

Origin of asunder1

Old English on sundran apart; see sunder
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Example Sentences

Overnight, lives were torn asunder as “evacuees” were hastily gathered at “assembly centers” and taken to “relocation centers”— euphemisms for the camps that imprisoned them through much of the war.

From Time

Really hate to see families cast asunder when kids are involved, but I also hate to see kids trapped in a hell of their parents’ making.

From Ozy

How does an event like this one tear relationships asunder and push new ones together?

By breaking up the biggest banks, conservatives will not be putting asunder what the free market has joined together.

And when you tear asunder codependent organisms, trouble comes knocking.

But there is an ongoing rupture with Bill; their marriage was truly torn asunder last season.

Many couples are torn asunder by financial devastation, not to mention the usual results of sharing too much sexual information.

The legal framework of the State and of obedience to the law in which industrial society is set threatens to break asunder.

The framework in which our industrial life is set cannot be readily broken asunder.

The horizon, however, was lowering and hazy, and the sun had not force enough to tear the murky veil asunder.

He hath decked it with silver and gold: he hath put it together with nails and hammers, that it may not fall asunder.

The cage went down by the run into the boat, and with a crash fell asunder.

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