Sunder Definition

sŭndər

sundered, sunders

verb

To break apart; separate; part; split.

Webster's New World

To force or keep apart.

American Heritage

To form a barrier or border between.

A river that sunders the two mountain ranges.

American Heritage

To dissolve (a connection or relationship).

A disagreement that sundered their friendship.

American Heritage

To become broken into parts or disunited.

American Heritage

Synonyms:

adjective

(dialectal or obsolete) Sundry; different.

Wiktionary

noun

Wiktionary

idiom

in sunder

Webster's New World

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Sunder

From Middle English, from Old English sundor- (“separate, different"), from Proto-Germanic *sundraz (“isolated, particular, alone"), from Proto-Indo-European *snter-, *seni-, *senu-, *san- (“apart, without, for oneself"). Cognate with Old Saxon sundar (“particular, special"), Dutch zonder (“without"), German sonder (“special, set apart"), Old Norse sundr (“separate"), Danish sønder (“apart, asunder"), Latin sine (“without").

From Wiktionary
From Middle English sundren (“to separate, part, divide"), from Old English sundrian (“to separate, split, part, divide"), from Proto-Germanic *sundrōnÄ… (“to separate"), from Proto-Indo-European *sen(e)- (“separate, without"). Cognate with Scots sinder, sunder (“to separate, divide, split up"), Dutch zonderen (“to isolate"), German sondern (“to separate"), Swedish söndra (“to divide"). More at sundry.

From Wiktionary
Middle English sundren from Old English sundrian

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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