Word Meanings - SUNDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: 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 a sandy plain. Carew. (more info) sundor asunder, separately, apart; akin to D. zonder, prep., without, G. sonder separate, as prep., without, sondern but, OHG. suntar separately, Icel. sundr asunder, Sw. & Dan. sönder, Goth. sundro

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SUNDER)

• Cleave
• Sunder
• split
• divide
• adhere
• rend
• di?sever
• stick
• Divide
• Separate
• dissect
• bisect
• portio
• part
• divorce
• segregate
• sever
• sunder
• deal out
• disunite
• keep apart
• part among
• allot
• distribute
• multiply
• Sever
• disjoin
• distinguish
• discommunicate
• disengage
• detach
• break
• except
• disconnect
• Split
• separate
• rive
• cleave
• crack
• splinter
• burst
• disagree
• secede
• Tear
• Rend
• lacerate
• shatter

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SUNDER)

• Cohere
• hold
• stand
• Count
• include
• reckon
• state
• classify
• propound
• affirm
• admit

Related words: (words related to SUNDER)

• COUNTERBRACE
  To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.
• STICK-LAC
  See LAC
• EXCEPT
  1. To take or leave out from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit. Who never touched The excepted tree. Milton. Wherein all other things concurred. Bp. Stillingfleet. 2. To object to; to protest against. Shak.
• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• COUNTERACTIVE
  Tending to counteract.
• 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.
• BREAKMAN
  See BRAKEMAN
• COUNTERFLEURY
  Counterflory.
• COUNTERVIEW
  1. An opposite or opposing view; opposition; a posture in which two persons front each other. Within the gates of hell sat Death and Sin, In counterview. Milton M. Peisse has ably advocated the counterview in his preface and appendixx.
• ADMITTER
  One who admits.
• COUNTABLE
  Capable of being numbered.
• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• DIVORCEABLE
  Capable of being divorced.
• STATEHOOD
  The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
• COUNTRY-DANCE
  See MACUALAY
• DISAGREEABLENESS
  The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
• BURSTEN
  p. p. of Burst, v. i.
• COUNTERJUMPER
  A salesman in a shop; a shopman; -- used contemtuously.
• RECKON
  reckon, G. rechnen, OHG. rahnjan), and to E. reck, rake an implement; the original sense probably being, to bring together, count together. 1. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate. The priest shall reckon to him the
• DISPROPORTIONALLY
  In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
• 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)
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• CONTRADISTINGUISH
  To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke.
• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• POKING-STICK
  A small stick or rod of steel, formerly used in adjusting the plaits of ruffs. Shak.
• IMPROPORTIONATE
  Not proportionate.
• SAGEBRUSH STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname.
• INDISTINGUISHABLE
  Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form
• LAWBREAKER
  One who disobeys the law; a criminal. -- Law"break`ing, n. & a.
• OLD LINE STATE
  Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.