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• past tense form of sunder.
• past participle of sunder.

sundered

American  

[suhn-derd] / ˈsʌn dərd /

adjective

1. 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.

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verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of sunder.

Other Word Forms

• unsundered
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of sundered

sunder ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

sundered

The partition that once sealed out the cranks and mediocrities has been permanently sundered.

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2026

The sundered ship fans out like a deck of cards then collapses, smoldering.

From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2024

But when the university ordered them off campus, their sense of safety was sundered.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2023

Genealogy search registries can repair sundered ancestral bonds, reuniting relatives yearning for kinship.

From Salon ● Feb. 26, 2023

The midmost stood somewhat forward from the others and sundered from them, an island in the waters, about which the flowing River flung pale shimmering arms.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Related Words

• detached
• disconnected
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