Asunder

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Asunder \A*sun"der\, adv. [Pref. a- + sunder.]
     Apart; separate from each other; into parts; in two;
     separately; into or in different pieces or places.
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           I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder.


                                                    --Zech. xi.
                                                    10.
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           As wide asunder as pole and pole.        --Froude.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  asunder
       adj : widely separated especially in space; "as wide asunder as
             pole from pole" [syn: {asunder(p)}]
       adv : into parts or pieces; "he took his father's watch apart";
             "split apart"; "torn asunder" [syn: {apart}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  49 Moby Thesaurus words for "asunder":
     adrift, all to pieces, apart, apart from, aside from,
     at a distance, away, away from, bipartite, by two, dichotomous,
     discontinuous, discrete, distal, distant, distinct, divergent,
     exotic, far, far off, faraway, fifty-fifty, half-and-half, in half,
     in halves, in the abstract, in twain, in two, incoherent, insular,
     long-distance, long-range, noncohesive, one by one, partitioned,
     piecemeal, remote, removed, separate, separated, separately,
     severally, sky-high, to shreds, unassociated, unattached,
     unattended, unconnected, unjoined