Word Meanings - ASUNDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Apart; separate from each other; into parts; in two; separately; into or in different pieces or places. I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder. Zech. xi. 10. As wide asunder as pole and pole. Froude.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ASUNDER)
- Apart
- Aloof
- away
- separately
- secret
- asunder
- privately
- aside
- secretly
- separate
- Break
- Fracture
- rupture
- shatter
- shiver
- destroy
- tame
- curb
- demolish
- tear asunder
- rend
- burst
- sever
- smash
- split
- subdue
- violate
- infringe
- Distant
- Far
- remote
- aloof
- apart
- indistinct
- obscure
- Rend
- Tear
- lacerate
- divide
- disintegrate
- disunite
- rive
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ASUNDER)
Related words: (words related to ASUNDER)
- BREAKMAN
See BRAKEMAN - SPLIT INFINITIVE
A simple infinitive with to, having a modifier between the verb and the to; as in, to largely decrease. Called also cleft infinitive. - ASIDE
1. On, or to, one side; out of a straight line, course, or direction; at a little distance from the rest; out of the way; apart. Thou shalt set aside that which is full. 2 Kings iv. 4. But soft! but soft! aside: here comes the king. Shak. - BURSTEN
p. p. of Burst, v. i. - OBSCURENESS
Obscurity. Bp. Hall. - BURST
berstan (pers. sing. berste, imp. sing. bærst, imp. pl. burston, p.p. borsten); akin to D. bersten, G. bersten, OHG. brestan, OS. brestan, 1. To fly apart or in pieces; of break open; to yield to force or pressure, especially to a sudden - DIVIDER
An instrument for dividing lines, describing circles, etc., compasses. See Compasses. Note: The word dividers is usually applied to the instrument as made for the use of draughtsmen, etc.; compasses to the coarser instrument used by carpenters. - BREAKABLE
Capable of being broken. - DIVIDEND
A number or quantity which is to be divided. (more info) 1. A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- applied to the profits as appropriated - OBSCURER
One who, or that which, obscures. - SHIVER-SPAR
A variety of calcite, so called from its slaty structure; -- called also slate spar. - DESTROYABLE
Destructible. Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham. - SECRETE
To separate from the blood and elaborate by the process of secretion; to elaborate and emit as a secretion. See Secretion. Why one set of cells should secrete bile, another urea, and so on, we do not known. Carpenter. Syn. -- To conceal; hide. See - LACERATE; LACERATED
Jagged, or slashed irregularly, at the end, or along the edge. (more info) 1. Rent; torn; mangled; as, a lacerated wound. By each other's fury lacerate Southey. - DISTANT
stand apart, be separate or distant; dis- + stare to stand. See 1. Separated; having an intervening space; at a distance; away. One board had two tenons, equally distant. Ex. xxxvi. 22. Diana's temple is not distant far. Shak. 2. Far separated; - SPLITFEET
The Fissipedia. - INDISTINCTION
Want of distinction or distinguishableness; confusion; uncertainty; indiscrimination. The indistinction of many of the same name . . . hath made some doubt. Sir T. Browne. An indistinction of all persons, or equality of all orders, is far from being - INFRINGER
One who infringes or violates; a violator. Strype. - SHATTER-BRAINED; SHATTER-PATED
Disordered or wandering in intellect; hence, heedless; wild. J. Goodman. - STANDARD
The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority. By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver. Arbuthnot. (more info) extendere to spread out, extend, - PERSEVERANCE
Continuance in a state of grace until it is succeeded by a state of glory; sometimes called final perseverance, and the perseverance of the saints. See Calvinism. Syn. -- Persistence; steadfastness; constancy; steadiness; pertinacity. (more info) - UNDERSECRETARY
A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury. - MAKE AND BREAK
Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker. - LAWBREAKER
One who disobeys the law; a criminal. -- Law"break`ing, n. & a. - DISSHIVER
To shiver or break in pieces. - INSEPARATE
Not separate; together; united. Shak. - BYSTANDER
One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey. Syn. -- Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer. - SUNBURST
A burst of sunlight. - DISSEVER
To part in two; to sever thoroughly; to sunder; to disunite; to separate; to disperse. The storm so dissevered the company . . . that most of therm never met again. Sir P. Sidney. States disserved, discordant, belligerent. D. Webster. (more info)