sunder

[US]/ˈsʌndə(r)/
[UK]/ˈsʌndər/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

vt. & vi. separate or split apart
n. the act of separating or splitting apart
Word Forms
Past Participlesundered
Third Person Singularsunders
Present Participlesundering
Past Tensesundered

Phrases & Collocations

sundered relationship

sunder the bond

Example Sentences

Nothing can sunder our friendship.

hew their bones in sunder!.

The country was sundered by civil war into two embattled states.

The earthquake caused the ground to sunder.

Their relationship began to sunder under the pressure of work.

The war sundered families and communities.

The storm threatened to sunder the ship in two.

The betrayal sundered their trust forever.

The company's decision to downsize may sunder long-term employees.

The disagreement sundered the once-close friends.

The scandal threatened to sunder the political party.

The conflict in the region threatens to sunder diplomatic relations.

The harsh words sundered their friendship irreparably.

Real-world Examples

The fleet of feet on flights of fancy step up to new wonders, torn to sunder are the records under shoes of record records.

Source: The World From A to Z

It is sometimes the custom when fast to a whale more than commonly powerful and alert, to seek to hamstring him, as it were, by sundering or maiming his gigantic tail-tendon.

Source: Moby-Dick

All things were changed, the land itself was different now, with broad telegraph roads up through the woods, that had not been there before, and rocks blasted and sundered up by the water, as they had not been before.

Source: The Growth of the Earth (Part 2)

But here—if we suppose this interview betwixt Mistress Hibbins and Hester Prynne to be authentic, and not a parable—was already an illustration of the young minister's argument against sundering the relation of a fallen mother to the offspring of her frailty.

Source: Red characters

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