sunder

[ suhn-der ]

/ ˈsʌn dər /

Archaic or Literary

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Definition of sunder

verb (used with object)

to separate; part; divide; sever.

verb (used without object)

to become separated; part.

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Origin of sunder

First recorded before 900; Middle English sundren, Old English sundrian; cognate with German sondern, Old Norse sundra; see sundry

OTHER WORDS FROM sunder

sun·der·a·ble, adjectivesun·der·ance, nounsun·der·er, noun

Words nearby sunder

Sunday punch, Sundays, Sunday school, Sunday supplement, sun deck, sunder, sundered, Sunderland, sundew, sundial, sun disc

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How to use sunder in a sentence

For "smite in sunder, or wound the heads;" some word answering to the Latin conquassare.
Aids to Reflection|Samuel Taylor Coleridge
With the passing of the years, many changes have occurred to sunder the friendships formed during those boylike expeditions.
Creatures of the Night|Alfred W. Rees
The mountains will sunder me from my dead—my buried wife—my three brave sons, all lying in one grave, killed within a month.
Jasper Lyle|Harriet Ward
But thou mayst heal it if thou wilt take thy words back, and tell me that thou wilt not sunder thee from us.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles|William Morris

But thou wottest, dear lad, that whiles and again must sister sunder from brother, and even so it has to be now.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles|William Morris

British Dictionary definitions for sunder

sunder

/ (ˈsʌndə) archaic, or literary /

verb

to break or cause to break apart or in pieces

noun

in sunder into pieces; apart

Derived forms of sunder

sunderable, adjectivesunderance, nounsunderer, noun

Word Origin for sunder

Old English sundrian; related to Old Norse sundr asunder, Gothic sundrō apart, Old High German suntar, Latin sine without

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sunder

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