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Definition of sunder in English: sunderverb ˈsʌndəˈsəndər [with object]literary Split apart. a universe sundered ages ago in a divine war Example sentencesExamples - Alienated from truthful knowledge, and unable to trust perceptual data without supplementary information, the individual is sundered from the world.
- But the process is apparently irreversible and non-renewable, and so if physical strain sunders the fibril bonds, tearing the tendon, it is impossible to reform them, at least in living tissue.
- According to Orthodox theology, death ‘does not mean the destruction of man but merely the sundering of the soul from the body’.
- They are simply sundered, and to bridge them is a task, not a gift.
Synonyms split, cut up, cleave, carve up, slice up, chop up, split up divide, split, cleave, separate, rend, rive, sever, break apart, break open
Phrases literary Apart or into pieces. hew their bones in sunder! Example sentencesExamples - And the car passes over them, and crushes them, and cuts them in sunder, and so they perish on the spot.
- He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.
Origin Late Old English sundrian; related to German sondern. Rhymes asunder, blunder, chunder, hereunder, plunder, rotunda, thereunder, thunder, under, up-and-under, wonder Definition of sunder in US English: sunderverbˈsəndərˈsəndər [with object]literary Split apart. the crunch of bone when it is sundered Example sentencesExamples - But the process is apparently irreversible and non-renewable, and so if physical strain sunders the fibril bonds, tearing the tendon, it is impossible to reform them, at least in living tissue.
- They are simply sundered, and to bridge them is a task, not a gift.
- Alienated from truthful knowledge, and unable to trust perceptual data without supplementary information, the individual is sundered from the world.
- According to Orthodox theology, death ‘does not mean the destruction of man but merely the sundering of the soul from the body’.
Synonyms split, cut up, cleave, carve up, slice up, chop up, split up divide, split, cleave, separate, rend, rive, sever, break apart, break open
Phrases literary Apart or into pieces. hew their bones in sunder! Example sentencesExamples - He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.
- And the car passes over them, and crushes them, and cuts them in sunder, and so they perish on the spot.
Origin Late Old English sundrian; related to German sondern. |