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SUNDER
sunder
(verb) break apart or in two, using violence
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Adjective
sunder (comparative more sunder, superlative most sunder)
(dialectal or obsolete) Sundry; separate; different.
Etymology 2
Verb
sunder (third-person singular simple present sunders, present participle sundering, simple past and past participle sundered)
(transitive) To break or separate or to break apart, especially with force.
(intransitive) To part, separate.
(UK, dialect, dated, transitive) To expose to the sun and wind.
Noun
sunder (plural sunders)
a separation into parts; a division or severance
Anagrams
• Durens, Dusner, drusen, nursed, Øresund
Source: Wiktionary
Sun"der, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sundered; p. pr. & vb. n. Sundering.] Etym: [OE. sundren, AS. sundrain (in asundrain, 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. sönder, Goth. sundro alone, separately.]
Definition: 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.
Definition: To part; to separate. [R.] Shak.
Sun"der, n. Etym: [See Sunder, v. t., and cf. Asunder.]
Definition: 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.
Definition: To expose to the sun and wind. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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