sunder

sun·der

to break apart; separate; part; split

Origin of sunder

Middle English sundren from Old English sundrian from sundor, asunder, akin to German sonder from Indo-European an unverified form s?ter- from base an unverified form seni-, away from, separate from source Classical Latin sine, without

sunder Idioms

in sunder

into parts or pieces

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sunder

verb

sun·dered, sun·der·ing, sun·ders

verb

transitive

To break into two or more pieces or parts; sever: “Several disputed sculptures … are sundered, with fragments residing in separate museums” ( Lee Rosenbaum )
To force or keep apart: “Even our own kindred in the North are sundered from us” ( J.R.R. Tolkien ) See Synonyms at separate.
To form a barrier or border between: a river that sunders the two mountain ranges.
To dissolve (a connection or relationship): a disagreement that sundered their friendship.

verb

intransitive

To become broken into parts or disunited.

Origin of sunder

Middle English sundren from Old English sundrian

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sun′der·ance
noun

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Adjective

(comparative more sunder, superlative most sunder)

(dialectal or obsolete) Sundry; different.

Origin

From Middle English, from Old English sundor- (“separate, different"), from Proto-Germanic *sundraz (“isolated, particular, alone"), from Proto-Indo-European *snter-, *seni-, *senu-, *san- (“apart, without, for oneself"). Cognate with Old Saxon sundar (“particular, special"), Dutch zonder (“without"), German sonder (“special, set apart"), Old Norse sundr (“separate"), Danish sÃ¸nder (“apart, asunder"), Latin sine (“without").

Verb

(third-person singular simple present sunders, present participle sundering, simple past and past participle sundered)

To break or separate or to break apart, especially with force.
(intransitive) To part, separate.
2003, Dean Barton, Searching for the Evergreen Man, Llumina Press, ISBN 9781932047233, page 69:
... Carlo finally saw Everything, before it sunders into things; he saw Knowledge before it sunders into knowing; he saw Integrity before it sunders in integrals; he saw Unity before it sunders into units.
(UK, dialect, dated) To expose to the sun and wind.

Noun

(plural sunders)

a separation into parts; a division or severance

Anagrams

nursed

Origin

From Middle English sundren (“to separate, part, divide"), from Old English sundrian (“to separate, split, part, divide"), from Proto-Germanic *sundrÅnÄ… (“to separate"), from Proto-Indo-European *sen(e)- (“separate, without"). Cognate with Scots sinder, sunder (“to separate, divide, split up"), Dutch zonderen (“to isolate"), German sondern (“to separate"), Swedish sÃ¶ndra (“to divide"). More at sundry.