Sunder
['sʌndə] or ['sʌndɚ]
Definition
(v. t.) 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.
(v. i.) To part; to separate.
(v. t.) A separation into parts; a division or severance.
(v. t.) To expose to the sun and wind.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Disunite, disjoin, dispart, disconnect, part, separate, dissociate, divide, sever, dissever, break, part, tear asunder.
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Definition
v.t. to separate: to divide.—ns. Sun′derance; Sun′derment.—In sunder (B.) asunder.
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Examples
- Conscience, and honour, and the most despotic necessity dragged me apart from her, and kept me sundered with ponderous fetters. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- There is but one alternative--to cleave to him as if I were a part of him, or to be sundered from him wide as the two poles of a sphere. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I must, then, repeat continually that we are for ever sundered:--and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I knew that, however my thoughts might adhere to him, his were effectually sundered from me. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I done what I could to keep you and Tickler in sunders, but my power were not always fully equal to my inclinations. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Gargery's power to part you and Tickler in sunders were not fully equal to his inclinations. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Keep in sunders! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
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