Meaning & use

Sundered

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Split apart or separated, especially forcibly or completely.

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The war sundered the once-unified nation into rival factions.

Years of resentment sundered the friendship beyond repair.

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An old word, closely related to "asunder"; it survives mainly in literary or dramatic contexts today.

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