The Collaborative International Dictionary
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
n. The act by which something is sundered. vb. (present participle of sunder English)
Usage examples of "sundering".
The barges would carry them all the way to the Sundering Sea, in the hope that the sea would carry them to Torath, the Crown, where they might be reunited in death with Haomane First-Born, the Lord-of-Thought.
Ingolin the Wise, who had watched the Sundering of the world, stood unwavering.
The retreat and sundering, then, must be not from this body only, but from every alien accruement.
Surely the bodily modification and other experience that have accompanied the sundering, must have occurred, identically, within the Matter?
The massive sundering of defences is the intention of the warlord and the High Fist.
Just prior to the Sundering, she sided with me, supported me, abandoned all her objections.
Undoubtedly, the events that led up to the Sundering, Council meetings, discussions .
That was many hundred years after the Sundering, after you went to your Sleep.
Long ago, during the Sundering, the Sartan who discovered and embraced the truth were cast into prison along with your people.
Chelestra believe that they are all descendants of the only two dwarves to have survived the Sundering and that they are, therefore, all related to each other.
That sundering ripped me like a leaf, but it was a twinge compared to the tug that is on me now.
Earth because of a Great Unveiling like to that Great Sundering in which vanished the Lost Ones.
Were these really dragons, stricken by magic to become stone and fallen to earth as the great sundering ripped through the world?
That was when, rather than turn dissent to feud, the two sides agreed to divide, and with this decision came the Sundering of the Clans.
I do, were we both to live, and how much more if this be the dawn of our sundering day!