Sunder

Adjective

 * 1)  Sundry; different.

Verb

 * 1)  To break or separate or to break apart, especially with force.
 * 2)  To part, separate.

Quotations

 * 1881 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Severed Selves, lines 8-9
 * '' Two souls, the shores wave-mocked of sundering seas: —
 * '' Such are we now.

Derived terms

 * asunder
 * sunderance

Noun

 * 1) a separation into parts; a division or severance
 * 2) * 1939, Alfred Edward Housman, Additional Poems, VII, lines 2-4
 * He would not stay for me to stand and gaze.
 * I shook his hand and tore my heart in sunder
 * And went with half my life about my ways.

Thesaurus
amputate, atomize, ax, bisect, break to pieces, break up, butcher, carve, chop, cleave, cut, cut away, cut in two, cut off, demolish, dichotomize, disassemble, disintegrate, disjoin, disjoint, dismantle, dissect, dissever, disunite, divide, divorce, excise, fissure, fragment, gash, hack, halve, hew, incise, jigsaw, lance, make mincemeat of, pare, part, pick to pieces, prune, pull in pieces, pull to pieces, pulverize, reduce to rubble, rend, rive, saw, scissor, sever, shatter, slash, slice, slit, smash, snip, split, take apart, tear, tear apart, tear to pieces, tear to shreds, tear to tatters, total, unbuild, undo, unmake, whittle, wrack up, wreck

Etymology 1
From, from sundor-:, from , from. Cognate with sundar:,  sonder:,  sundr:,  zonder:,  sønder:,  sine:.

Etymology 2
From sundren:, from  sundrian:, from, from. Cognate with sinder:, sunder:,  zonderen:,  sondern:,  söndra:. More at sundry.

Verb

 * Finnish:


 * Russian: разделять, разлучать


 * Russian:

Anagrams

 * nursed

Adverb
sunder


 * 1) apart

Etymology
, whence also Old High German suntar, Old Norse sundr