asunder

Asunder is defined as being shattered or broken up into little pieces.

(adverb)

If you hit a watermelon with a sledgehammer and it burst into many pieces, that is an example that you tore the watermelon asunder.

See asunder in Webster's New World College Dictionary

adverb

Origin: ME < OE on sundran < on, on + sundor: see sunder

See asunder in American Heritage Dictionary 4

adverb

Into separate parts or pieces: broken asunder.
Apart from each other either in position or in direction: The curtains had been drawn asunder.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English

Origin: , from Old English on sundran

Origin: : on, on; see on

Origin: + sundran, separately (from sunder, apart)

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