sunder

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: sun=der

CIDE DICTIONARY

sunder, v. t. [OE. sundren, AS. sundrain (in āsundrain, gesundrain), from sundor asunder, separately, apart; akin to D. zonder, prep., without, G. sonder separate, as prep., without, sondern but, OHG. suntar separately, Icel. sundr asunder, Sw. & Dan. sönder, Goth. sundrō alone, separately.].

 To disunite in almost any manner, either by rending, cutting, or breaking; to part; to put or keep apart; to separate; to divide; to sever; as, to sunder a rope; to sunder a limb; to sunder friends.  [1913 Webster]
"It is sundered from the main land by a sandy plain."  [1913 Webster]

sunder, v. i. 

 To part; to separate.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

sunder, n. [See Sunder, v. t., and cf. Asunder.].

 A separation into parts; a division or severance.  [1913 Webster]

In sunder, into parts. “He breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder.” Ps. xlvi. 9.

sunder, v. t. 

 To expose to the sun and wind.  Halliwell.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

sunder, v.tr. & intr. archaic or literary

Idiom

in sunder apart.

Etymology

OE sundrian, f. asundrian etc.: in sunder f. ME f. o(n)sunder ASUNDER

THESAURUS

sunder

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

ROGET THESAURUS

sunder

Disjunction

VB be disjoined, come off, fall off, come to pieces, fall to pieces, peel off, get loose, disjoin, disconnect, disengage, disunite, dissociate, dispair, divorce, part, dispart, detach, separate, cut off, rescind, segregate, set apart, keep apart, insulate, isolate, throw out of gear, cut adrift, loose, unloose, undo, unbind, unchain, unlock, unpack, unravel, disentangle, set free, sunder, divide, subdivide, sever, dissever, abscind, circumcise, cut, incide, incise, saw, snip, nib, nip, cleave, rive, rend, slit, split, splinter, chip, crack, snap, break, tear, burst, rend, rend asunder, rend in twain, wrench, rupture, shatter, shiver, cranch, crunch, craunch, chop, cut up, rip up, hack, hew, slash, whittle, haggle, hackle, discind, lacerate, scamble, mangle, gash, hash, slice, cut up, carve, dissect, anatomize, dislimb, take to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces, tear to pieces, tear to tatters, tear piecemeal, tear limb from limb, divellicate, skin, disintegrate, dismember, disbranch, disband, disperse, dislocate, disjoint, break up, mince, comminute, apportion, part, part company, separate, leave.