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sunder
/ ˈsʌndə /
verb
- to break or cause to break apart or in pieces
noun
- in sunderin sunder into pieces; apart
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Derived Forms
- ˈsunderer, noun
- ˈsunderance, noun
- ˈsunderable, adjective
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Other Words From
- sun·der·a·ble adjective
- sun·der·ance noun
- sun·der·er noun
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of sunder1
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Example Sentences
For "smite in sunder, or wound the heads;" some word answering to the Latin conquassare.
With the passing of the years, many changes have occurred to sunder the friendships formed during those boylike expeditions.
The mountains will sunder me from my dead—my buried wife—my three brave sons, all lying in one grave, killed within a month.
But thou mayst heal it if thou wilt take thy words back, and tell me that thou wilt not sunder thee from us.
But thou wottest, dear lad, that whiles and again must sister sunder from brother, and even so it has to be now.
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