Sunder
WordNet

verb


(1)   Break apart or in two, using violence
WiktionaryText

Verb



  1. To break or separate or to break apart, especially with force.
  2. To part, separate.

Quotations

  • 1881 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Severed Selves, lines 8-9
    Two souls, the shores wave-mocked of sundering seas: —
    Such are we now.

Etymology


, whence also Old High German suntar, Old Norse sundr
 
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