sunder

Speech parts

1. sunder - Noun

2. sunder - Adjective

3. sunder - Verb

4. sunder - Adverb

Meaning

To part; to separate.

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.

A separation into parts; a division or severance.

To expose to the sun and wind.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

cleave rend separate break split divide tear dissociate sever detach shatter part disjoin disunite hew
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Antonyms

cleave group company join link bond
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Hypernyms

fragment break-up fragmentise fragmentize

Phrases with the word

in sunder

Derivatives

sundered sundering

Anagrams

nursed Dusner unders drusen

Examples

Pity must join together those whom wrath has torn in sunder. William Blake

Never mind our kind friends: if they can part our bodies, it is enough; in God's name, let them not sunder our souls! Anne Brontë

O death that dividest brothers knit together in love, how cruel, how ruthless you are so to sunder them! Jerome

One people will we be, - a band of brothers; No danger, no distress shall sunder us. We will be freemen as our fathers were, And sooner welcome death than live as slaves. We will rely on God's almighty arm, And never quail before the power of man. Friedrich Schiller

Laws, as we read in ancient sages, Have been like cobwebs in all ages: Cobwebs for little flies are spread, And laws for little folks are made; But if an insect of renown, Hornet or beetle, wasp or drone, Be caught in quest of sport or plunder, The flimsy fetter flies in sunder. James Beattie

Monks, mice, rats, vermin, seldom sunder without harming. German Proverb

Close letter words and terms

sundeck Sundeen Sundell sunder out sunder tree sunderable