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sunder

adj
/ˈsʌndɚ/US

Etymology

From Middle English sunder, 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”), German sondern (“to separate, set apart”), Old Norse sundr (“separate”), Danish sønder (“apart, asunder”), Latin sine (“without”).

  1. derived from *snter-✻
  2. derived from *sundraz✻ — “isolated, particular, alone”
  3. derived from sundor- — “separate, different”
  4. inherited from sunder

Definitions

  1. Sundry

    Sundry; separate; different.

  2. To break or separate or to break apart, especially with force.

    • In Taran's hand the sundered bone had turned into gray dust, which he cast aside.

  3. To part, separate.

    • Two souls, the shores wave-mocked of sundering seas: — Such are we now.
    • … 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.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. To expose to the sun and wind.

      • Where a fair opportunity offers, and the grass is perfectly dry, the hipples are sundered; that is, broken out into beds in the usual manner, turned, and again got up into cocklets, of such size as the state of dryness requires.
      • The trees and shrubs all around us began to show the signs of death; dried branches, leafless gray and molding wood. The ground here was as hard as stone, the dirt and dust dry as bone sundered in the desert scorch.

    2. a separation into parts

      a separation into parts; a division or severance

      • 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.

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Derived

asunder, dissunder, in sunder, sunderable, sunderance, sunderer, Sunderland, sunderment, sunder out, tosunder, unsundered

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA