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SUNDER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sunder mean?
• SUNDER (verb)
The verb SUNDER has 1 sense:
1. break apart or in two, using violence
Familiarity information: SUNDER used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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Past simple: sundered


Past participle: sundered


-ing form: sundering


Sense 1
Meaning:
Break apart or in two, using violence
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "sunder" is one way to...):
break up; fragment; fragmentise; fragmentize (break or cause to break into pieces)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Context examples
I must, then, repeat continually that we are for ever sundered:—and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Both were famous warriors, but as their exploits had been performed in widely sundered countries, they had never before been able to cross lances.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The new study suggests that fierce winds may blow the sundered water molecules into the planets' nightside hemispheres.
(Water Is Destroyed, Then Reborn in Ultrahot Jupiters, NASA/JPL)
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