to sunder
3
8.7
- verb
- /ˈsʌndər/
- Archaic
:
dividir
- The earthquake sundered the road, making it impossible to drive through.
The God like sunders itself into its shapes.
- The God like sunders itself into its shapes.
- The connection is sundered between people as members of this community.
- So he goes on and he says, reason, essentially the notion winds up directly sundered into itself and its opposite.
Examples
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The dual processes of liberalization and democratization were thus sundered (Erogul 1987: 119-138), and a new paradox in Turkish politics was defined.
Academic text (1991) -
When Africa sundered from Asia, the marks of the Pharaohs disintegrated.
Fiction book (1992) -
We can do nothing while the staff remains sundered.
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For that strange week, we were a sundered family, being cared for in separate houses.
Fiction book (2001) -
The unity of the nation is sundered.
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You can no more sunder slavery from the Confederacy than you can breathe from life.
Blog text (27) -
The two families, sundered in the ruin of a friendship, were united again first in new friendship and then in marriage.
Fiction book (1992) -
If her village and all valley dweller villages were to be sundered from the highlanders...
Fiction book (2000) -
Merriell rejects the earlier faith-reason division as sundering the unity of the work.
Academic text (2003) -
To either side, gray humps of weathered granite rose in cracked and sundered domes against the blue sky.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
26
3.0
To separate into pieces, for example a machine or a group
21
3.9
To break into many small, sharp pieces like wood or glass
10
8.7
To pull something apart with great force
1
4.1
To split or break apart suddenly
To split something violently with a sharp tool
To tear something into separate parts, usually by force
Antonyms
How Forceful
72
2.8
- Informal
21
5.6
- Archaic
3
8.7
513
1.3
297
1.9
Surface Forms
Etymology
Sunder comes from an old English word sundor meaning 'apart' and is the same root as asunder. So to sunder something is to force it 'apart' or split it into separate pieces, like a storm breaking a tree in two.