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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.


verb

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

Other Word Forms

Etymology

Origin of sundered

sunder ( def. ) + -ed 2 ( def. )

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

From Slate Mar. 6, 2026

They spoke of how their community would be sundered and friendships lost, because their public school is at the center of these bonds.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 30, 2024

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

From Salon Feb. 26, 2023

The post-communist Russia of the 1990s, led by Boris Yeltsin, the country’s first freely elected leader, had sundered.

From Seattle Times Mar. 26, 2022

It sundered, and a pale spindle of light gleamed between his opened arms, a faint oval reaching from the ground up to the height of his raised hands.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

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