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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.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: sunder)
Usage examples of "sundered".
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.
Neyel as sundered members of the human family, so you feel responsible for what they do, and for whatever happens to them.
Anaxagoras, again, in his assertion of a Mind pure and unmixed, affirms a simplex First and a sundered One, though writing long ago he failed in precision.
Intellectual Realm will not be a unity nor be included in any unity: all is sundered individuality.
In sum, things utterly sundered, having nothing in common, standing at the remotest poles, are opposites in nature: the contrariety does not depend upon quality or upon the existence of a distinct genus of beings, but upon the utmost difference, clash in content, clash in effect.
Well, the city the Protector was holed up in was breached, the walls sundered, slaughter in the streets, the madness of battle gripped us all.
Who was it who killed millions in the name of good, who sundered a universe, who brought the living to strange worlds, then left them to fend for themselves?