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
- 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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