MEANING
To split or separate things that were joined, often with a sense of force or finality.
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Words that belong together
- sunder a bond
- sunder the earth
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The blast sundered the bridge at its weakest joint.
The betrayal sundered a friendship older than the town itself.
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Word forms
- Base
- sunder
- Past tense
- sundered
- Past participle
- sundered
- Present participle
- sundering
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- sunder
- Present continuous
- am/is/are sundering
- Present perfect
- have/has sundered
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been sundering
- Past
- sundered
- Past continuous
- was/were sundering
- Past perfect
- had sundered
- Past perfect continuous
- had been sundering
- Future
- will sunder
- Future continuous
- will be sundering
- Future perfect
- will have sundered
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been sundering
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Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: sunder; sunders; sundered; sundered; sundering Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: sunders.
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