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Synonyms for asunder


Grammar : Adv
Spell : uh-suhn-der
Phonetic Transcription : əˈsʌn dər



Définition of asunder

Origin :
  • mid-12c., contraction of Old English on sundran (see sunder). Middle English used to know asunder for "distinguish, tell apart."
  • adv apart; into pieces
Example sentences :
  • She would see who would keep them asunder now she had made up her mind!
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • Could men have put them asunder, if God had joined them together?
  • Extract from : « Maid Marian » by Thomas Love Peacock
  • Split me asunder if he would not say that I had choused him!
  • Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Because, dear Barnaby, the endeavour of my life has been to keep you two asunder.'
  • Extract from : « Barnaby Rudge » by Charles Dickens
  • They bear our name; how could he understand the divisions that rend us asunder?
  • Extract from : « Things as They Are » by Amy Wilson-Carmichael
  • But the breezes shred all asunder and give them unaccomplished to the clouds.
  • Extract from : « The Aeneid of Virgil » by Virgil
  • It was Hagen drew his sword and took the proud Brynild and hewed her asunder.
  • Extract from : « Epic and Romance » by W. P. Ker
  • All the laws of honour, of faith, and of patriotism, tear us asunder.
  • Extract from : « Manasseh » by Maurus Jokai
  • And straightway Attus took the whetstone and cut it asunder.
  • Extract from : « Stories From Livy » by Alfred Church
  • An inexplicable reserve had risen up and thrust them asunder.
  • Extract from : « Fairy Fingers » by Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie

Antonyms for asunder

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