asunder
adverb /əˈsʌndə(r)/
/əˈsʌndər/
(old-fashioned or literary)- into pieces; apart
- families rent/torn asunder by the revolution
Oxford Collocations DictionaryAsunder is used with these verbs:- tear3
Word OriginOld English on sundran ‘in or into a separate place’; compare with sunder.