Meaning & use
sundering
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The act of splitting or breaking something apart, especially forcibly.
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The war led to the sundering of a once-unified nation.
Their friendship survived years of distance without any real sundering.
A note on using this word
From the verb 'sunder,' now mostly literary or formal; older wedding vows once used the phrase 'till death us do sunder.'
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unificationjoining
Another way to use it
2. verb
Splitting or breaking apart.
The earthquake caused a sundering of the cliff face.
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