sunder

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Pronunciation

• (America) IPA: /ˈsʌndɚ/

Adjective

sunder

1. (dialectal or obsolete) Sundry; separate; different.

Verb

sunder (sunders, present participle sundering; past and past participle sundered)

1. (transitive) To break or separate or to break apart, especially with force.
2. (intransitive) To part#Verb|part, separate.
   • 1881 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Severed Selves, lines 8-9

     Two souls, the shores wave-mocked of sundering seas: —

     Such are we now.

3. (UK, dialect, dated, transitive) To expose to the sun and wind.

Related terms

• sundry

Translations

• French: rompre
• Italian: spezzare
• Russian: разделя́ть

Translations

• Russian: расстава́ться

Noun

sunder (plural sunders)

1. a separation into parts; a division or severance
   • 1939, Alfred Edward Housman, Additional Poems, VII, lines 2-4

     He would not stay for me to stand and gaze.

     I shook his hand and tore my heart in sunder

     And went with half my life about my ways.

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