Crossword clues for sunder
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sunder \Sun"der\, v. i.
To part; to separate. [R.]
--Shak.
Sunder \Sun"der\, n. [See Sunder, v. t., and cf. Asunder.] 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.
Sunder \Sun"der\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sundered; p. pr. & vb. n. Sundering.] [OE. sundren, AS. sundrain (in [=a]sundrain, 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. s["o]nder, Goth. sundr[=o] 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.
It is sundered from the main land by a sandy plain.
--Carew.
Sunder \Sun"der\, v. t.
To expose to the sun and wind. [Prov. Eng.]
--Halliwell.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English sundrian, syndrian "to sunder, separate, divide," from sundor "separately, apart," from Proto-Germanic *sunder (cognates: Old Norse sundr, Old Frisian sunder, Old High German suntar "aside, apart;" German sondern "to separate"), from PIE root *sene- "apart, separated" (cognates: Sanskrit sanutar "far away," Avestan hanare "without," Greek ater "without," Latin sine "without," Old Church Slavonic svene "without," Old Irish sain "different"). Related: Sundered; sundering.\n
Wiktionary
Etymology 1
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(context dialectal or obsolete English) sundry; separate; different. Etymology 2
n. a separation into parts; a division or severance v
1 (context transitive English) To break or separate or to break apart, especially with force. 2 (context intransitive English) To part#Verb, separate.
WordNet
v. break apart or in two, using violence
Wikipedia
Sunder may refer to:
- Sundar, an Indian given name (including a list of persons with the name)
- Sunder (actor), an actor in Punjabi and Hindi films
- Sunder, a fictional character in the Marvel Universe
- Sunder, a character from the Transformers franchise
Sunder , was a noted Indian film actor between the 1938 and 1980s. He acted in many Punjabi and Hindi films in his career as hero or supporting roles as a comedian.
Usage examples of "sunder".
In the fore part of which, betwixt the seuen pilastrels, there were appointed little slender Pillers wrought about with leaues, copies, heades with haire like leaues, boyes their hippes and legges proportioned into brawnches, Birdes and copies, and vesselles full of flowers, with other woonderfull inuentions and deuises, from the top to the bottome of the Anaglyph, as if they had grown out of the foundation, making and diuiding in sunder the spaces, their chapters were wrought of a fashion answerable to the rest.
Bele then spoke again to his sons, and bade them erect his howe, or funeral mound, within sight of that of Thorsten, that their spirits might commune, and not be sundered even in death.
He was sundered and spread, and thought and voice were no longer his, but gathered from worldwide as if by the overhead warping of the ionosphere, or from some medullar sentience of Earth itself, the whole sphere resonating from brainstem of the Brooks range to caude of Tierra del Fuego.
For in such wise she spake of thee, that I deemed that naught would sunder you save death.
As I finally struggled up, to the north, behind me, somewhere near the Feyn River, the earth could take no more, and the back of Recluce split and a river of molten iron flared into the sky like a second sun, building a wall on the north side of the new channel between the sundered remnants of Recluce.
Whatever meager aspirations he had still been nurturing at that point were completely sundered when he had recognized his good Samaritan as being none other than Lord Harcourt.
Great Age of the Sundered World of Urulat, which was once called Uru-Alat after the World God that gave birth to it, they began to converge upon Darkhaven.
In the First Age, before the world was Sundered, when the world was new-made and the Shapers dwelled among us.
Once, long ago, before the world was Sundered, they made war upon the Ellylon.
Allies had converged into an army the likes of which had not been seen since the Fourth Age of the Sundered World.
Ushahin shivered in the saddle, wrapping his arms around the case that held the sundered Helm of Shadows and waiting.
Already, then, he had endured many long ages sundered from the Souma, wounded and bleeding.
The case containing the sundered Helm jounced, lashed haphazardly to the saddle behind him.
So they must have looked long ago, before the world was Sundered, when Satoris Third-Born walked in the deep places of the earth and spoke with dragons.
Ushahin thrust Godslayer into his belt and stooped to retrieve the case that held the sundered Helm of Shadows.