Thesaurus: sunder

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1. v. t. 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.
2. v. i. To part; to separate.
3. v. t. A separation into parts; a division or severance.
4. v. t. To expose to the sun and wind.
5. v. break apart or in two, using violence
6. 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. It is sundered from the main land by a sandy plain. Carew. To part; to separate. [R.] Shak. A separation into parts; a division or severance. In sunder, into parts. "He breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder." Ps. xlvi. 9. To expose to the sun and wind. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
7. 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.It is sundered from the main land by a sandy plain. Carew.
8. v:100 v. break apart or in two, using violence