SUNDERING

Verb

sundering

present participle of sunder

Noun

sundering (plural sunderings)

The act by which something is sundered.

Anagrams

• endurings, undersign, undersing

Source: Wiktionary


SUNDER

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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