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(əsʌndəʳ)
adverb [ADVERB after verb]
If something tears or is torn asunder, it is violently separated into two or more parts or pieces.
[literary]
...a dress rent asunder from shoulder to hem.
The debate is tearing Wall Street asunder.
Synonyms: to pieces, apart, torn, rent More Synonyms of asunder

asunder in British English

(əˈsʌndə)
adverb, adjective
(postpositive)
in or into parts or pieces; apart
to tear asunder
Word origin
Old English on sundran apart; see sunder

asunder in American English

(əˈsʌndər)
adverb
1. 
into parts or pieces
2. 
apart or separate in direction or position
Word origin
ME < OE on sundran < on, on + sundor: see sunder

Examples of 'asunder' in a sentence
asunder

He was big enough to combine what others put asunder.
Christianity Today (2000)
The intention is to link both fragments digitally, restoring through technology what time has put asunder.
The Times Literary Supplement (2010)
Thus was launched the great Dot War that is tearing the nation asunder.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
(adverb) 
Definition
into parts or pieces
(literary) 
The fabric of society had been torn asunder.
Synonyms
to pieces
apart
He took the clock apart to see what was wrong with it.
torn
rent
to bits
to shreds
in pieces
into pieces

Additional synonyms

in the sense of apart
Definition
to or in pieces
He took the clock apart to see what was wrong with it.
Synonyms
to pieces,
to bits,
asunder (literary),
into parts

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asunder

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