Word Meanings - DISSUNDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To separate; to sunder; to destroy. Chapman.

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• DESTROYABLE
  Destructible. Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham.
• SUNDER
  To disunite in almost any manner, either by rending, cutting, or breaking; to part; to put or keep apart; to separate; to divide; to sever; as, to sunder a rope; to sunder a limb; to sunder friends. It is sundered from the main land by
• SEPARATE
  pfref. se- aside + parare to make ready, prepare. See Parade, and cf. 1. To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner. From the fine gold I separate the alloy. Dryden. Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me. Gen. xiii.
• DESTROY
  destruire, F. détruire, fr. L. destruere, destructum; de + struere to 1. To unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence of; to demolish. But ye shall destroy
• CHAPMAN
  akin to D. koopman, Sw. köpman, Dan. kiöpmand, G. kaufmann.f. Chap to 1. One who buys and sells; a merchant; a buyer or a seller. The word of life is a quick commodity, and ought not, as a drug to be obtruded on those chapmen who are unwilling
• DESTROYER
  One who destroys, ruins, kills, or desolates.
• INSEPARATE
  Not separate; together; united. Shak.
• SELF-DESTROYER
  One who destroys himself; a suicide.
• TORPEDO-BOAT DESTROYER
  A larger, swifter, and more powerful armed type of torpedo boat, originally intended principally for the destruction of torpedo boats, but later used also as a more formidable torpedo boat.
• DISSUNDER
  To separate; to sunder; to destroy. Chapman.
• ASUNDER
  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.
• MISUNDERSTANDER
  One who misunderstands. Sir T. More.
• MISUNDERSTANDING
  1. Mistake of the meaning; error; misconception. Bacon. 2. Disagreement; difference of opinion; dissension; quarrel. "Misunderstandings among friends." Swift.
• MISUNDERSTAND
  To misconceive; to mistake; to miscomprehend; to take in a wrong sense.
• UNDESTROYABLE
  Indestructible.
• INSEPARATELY
  Inseparably. Cranmer.
• COMMERCE DESTROYER
  A very fast, unarmored, lightly armed vessel designed to capture or destroy merchant vessels of an enemy. Not being intended to fight, they may be improvised from fast passenger steamers.