SUNDER

v. n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

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.

2.
v.

To part; to separate. [R.] Shak.

3.
n.

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.

4.
v.

To expose to the sun and wind. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.


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