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Torn asunder; separated. [Obs.] "His greedy throat . . . distraught." Spenser.

To destroy the union of; to divide; to part; to sever; to disjoin; to sunder; to separate; as, to disunite particles of matter.

Diverging; spreading asunder; widely diverging.

Drawing asunder. [R.]

To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts. Divide the living child in two. 1 Kings iii. 25.

To separate or disunite; to sunder. It [a word] was divorced from its old sense. Earle.

Tending to pull asunder, tear, or rend; distracting.

A mutual exposition of terms, meaning, or motives, with a view to adjust a misunderstanding, and reconcile differences; reconciliation; agreement; as, to come to an explanation.

The act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach.

To tear asunder; to break in pieces. The other divisions of the kingdom being hackled and torn to pieces. Burke.

To cut in pieces; to chop; to hack. Hew them to pieces; hack their bones asunder. Shak.

A complicated and embarrassing state of things; a serious misunderstanding. Wrestling to free itself from the baleful imbroglio. Carlyle.

A cutting off, through, or asunder; interruption. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

virgin in matrimony. Wyclif. What, therefore, God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. Matt. xix. 6.

pears apieces with his teeth. Dr. H. More. He breaketh the bow, and knappeth the spear in sunder. Ps. xlvi. 9 (Book of Common Prayer.)

ipper; to dip; as, to lade water out of a tub, or into a cistern. And chides the sea that sunders him from thence, Saying, he'll lade it dry to have his way. Shak.

le mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; as, he made a mess of it. [Colloq.]

To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand. Locke.

A mistaking or mistake; wrong apprehension of one's meaning of a fact; misconception; misunderstanding.

To misunderstand; to disregard. [Obs.] Milton.