âCoffee, the favorite drink of the civilized world.â â Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States
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, Ăresund
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
Recent Word Finds
Word of the Day
23 January 2025
LEFT
(adjective) being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the west when facing north; âmy left handâ; âleft center fieldâ; âthe left bank of a river is bank on your left side when you are facing downstreamâ
Coffee Trivia
