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Sunder

Sunder Meaning & Definition
Sunder Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Sunder?

[v] break apart or in two, using violence

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See Also | break up | fragment | fragmentise | fragmentize

Sunder In Webster's Dictionary

\Sun"der\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sundered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sundering}.] [OE. sundren, AS. sundrain (in [=a]sundrain, gesundrain), from sundor asunder, separately, apart; akin to D. zonder, prep., without, G. sonder separate, as prep., without, sondern but, OHG. suntar separately, Icel. sundr asunder, Sw. & Dan. s["o]nder, Goth. sundr[=o] alone, separately.] To disunite in almost any manner, either by rending, cutting, or breaking; to part; to put or keep apart; to separate; to divide; to sever; as, to sunder a rope; to sunder a limb; to sunder friends. It is sundered from the main land by a sandy plain. --Carew.
\Sun"der\, v. i. To part; to separate. [R.] --Shak.
\Sun"der\, n. [See {Sunder}, v. t., and cf. {Asunder}.] A separation into parts; a division or severance. {In sunder}, into parts. ``He breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder.'' --Ps. xlvi. 9.
\Sun"der\, v. t. To expose to the sun and wind. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.

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