sundered
Archaic or Literary. separated or divided into parts or broken to pieces: In Austria’s coat of arms, freedom is signified by a sundered iron chain ringing both talons of a black, red-tongued eagle.
the simple past tense and past participle of sunder.
Origin of sundered
1Other words from sundered
- un·sun·dered, adjective
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How to use sundered in a sentence
It has been the author of the trauma of thousands of our soldiers, their limbs left over there, their families sundered.
They accept with equanimity the true horror of aging alone, sundered from family and community.
No Country for Old People: ‘Kings Point’ Exposes the Hidden Elder Crisis | Donald A. Davidoff | February 16, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTAfterwards King Olaf let Kark be taken away thence, & his head be sundered from his trunk.
The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald The Tyrant (Harald Haardraade) | Snorri SturlusonYou are mine now—body, soul, forever; for even in Paradise those who love are not sundered.
God Wills It! | William Stearns DavisAt a later date political differences completely sundered them.
The Life of Mazzini | Bolton King
Swiftly he turned his back, Reached he his hat from rack, Then from the screaming pack,Himself he sundered.
The Book of Humorous Verse | VariousThe northern invaders sundered the Semites of the West from those of the East.
Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations | Archibald Sayce
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