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82 words match “SUNDER”

SUNDER v. 4 definitions
ing, 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.
ASUNDER adv.
arately; into or in different pieces or places. I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder. Zech. xi. 10. As wide asunder as pole and pole. Froude.
DISSUNDER v.
To separate; to sunder; to destroy. [R.] Chapman.
MISUNDERSTAND v.
To misconceive; to mistake; to miscomprehend; to take in a wrong sense.
MISUNDERSTANDER n.
One who misunderstands. Sir T. More.
MISUNDERSTANDING n. 2 definitions
Disagreement; difference of opinion; dissension; quarrel. "Misunderstandings among friends." Swift.
ABRUPT v.
To tear off or asunder. [Obs.] "Till death abrupts them." Sir T. Browne.
ALL adv.
properly belongs to the following word, being a kind of intensive prefix (orig. meaning asunder and answering to the LG. ter-, HG. zer- ). It is frequently to be met with in old books, used without the all. Thus Wyclif says, "The vail of the temple was to rent:" and of Judas, "He was hanged and to-burst the middle:" i…
APART adv.
In two or more parts; asunder; to piece; as, to take a piece of machinery apart.
APO n.
A prefix from a Greek preposition. It usually signifies from, away from, off, or asunder, separate; as, in apocope (a cutting off), apostate, apostle (one sent away), apocarpous.
ATWAIN adv.
In twain; asunder. [Obs. or Poetic] "Cuts atwain the knots." Tennyson.
ATWO adv.
In two; in twain; asunder. [Obs.] Chaucer.
AVULSION n.
A tearing asunder; a forcible separation. The avulsion of two polished superficies. Locke.
BARON n.
; as, baron and feme, husband and wife. [R.] Cowell. Baron of beef, two sirloins not cut asunder at the backbone. -- Barons of the Cinque Ports, formerly members of the House of Commons, elected by the seven Cinque Ports, two for each port. -- Baron of the exchequer, the judges of the Court of Exchequer, one of the t…
BEMANGLE v.
To mangle; to tear asunder. [R.] Beaumont.
BOND n.
hain, etc.; a band; a ligament; a shackle or a manacle. Gnawing with my teeth my bonds in sunder, I gained my freedom. Shak.
BOWEL n.
animal; an entrail, especially of man; a gut; -- generally used in the plural. He burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out. Acts i. 18.
BREAK v.
divide into two or more pieces, usually with suddenness and violence; to part; to burst asunder.
BROKEN a.
Fractured; cracked; disunited; sundered; strained; apart; as, a broken reed; broken friendship.
CATACLASM n.
A breaking asunder; disruption.
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