Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to sunder
Participle: sundered
Gerund: sundering
Indicative
Present
| I | sunder |
| you | sunder |
| he;she;it | sunders |
| we | sunder |
| you | sunder |
| they | sunder |
Perfect
| I | have sundered |
| you | have sundered |
| he;she;it | has sundered |
| we | have sundered |
| you | have sundered |
| they | have sundered |
Past
| I | sundered |
| you | sundered |
| he;she;it | sundered |
| we | sundered |
| you | sundered |
| they | sundered |
Pluperfect
| I | had sundered |
| you | had sundered |
| he;she;it | had sundered |
| we | had sundered |
| you | had sundered |
| they | had sundered |
Future
| I | will sunder |
| you | will sunder |
| he;she;it | will sunder |
| we | will sunder |
| you | will sunder |
| they | will sunder |
Future Perfect
| I | will have sundered |
| you | will have sundered |
| he;she;it | will have sundered |
| we | will have sundered |
| you | will have sundered |
| they | will have sundered |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | sunder |
| you | sunder |
| he;she;it | sunder |
| we | sunder |
| you | sunder |
| they | sunder |
Perfect
| I | have sundered |
| you | have sundered |
| he;she;it | have sundered |
| we | have sundered |
| you | have sundered |
| they | have sundered |
Imperfect
| I | sundered |
| you | sundered |
| he;she;it | sundered |
| we | sundered |
| you | sundered |
| they | sundered |
Pluperfect
| I | had sundered |
| you | had sundered |
| he;she;it | had sundered |
| we | had sundered |
| you | had sundered |
| they | had sundered |
Conditional
Present
| I | would sunder |
| you | would sunder |
| he;she;it | would sunder |
| we | would sunder |
| you | would sunder |
| they | would sunder |
Perfect
| I | would have sundered |
| you | would have sundered |
| he;she;it | would have sundered |
| we | would have sundered |
| you | would have sundered |
| they | would have sundered |
Imperative
| you | sunder |
| we | Let's sunder |
| you | sunder |
Verbs conjugated like 'sunder'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'sunder'
blunder,
bunker,
chunder,
cinder,
dander,
daunder,
dudder,
fender,
founder,
gander,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to split into two or more parts
- becut, discerp, disintegrate, dispart, dissever, divide, divorce, part, partition, piecemeal, rescind, section, sever, split, split up
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English sundren (“to separate, part, divide”), from Old English sundrian (“to separate, split, part, divide”), from Proto-Germanic *sundrōną (“to separate”), from Proto-Indo-European *sen(e)- (“separate, without”). Cognate with Scots sinder, sunder (“to separate, divide, split up”), Dutch zonderen (“to isolate”), German sondern (“to separate”), Swedish söndra (“to divide”). More at sundry. See: Old English '
sundrian', Proto-Germanic '
*sundrōną', Dutch '
zonderen', German, old spelling '
sondern', Swedish '
söndra'.
Verbs referencing "sunder"
German, old spelling
sondern, Danish
søndre, Swedish
söndra.
Sample Sentences
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Notwithstanding its terrifically wide sweep, (some thirty feet or more,) and the hissing vigor of its descent, sufficient to sunder these very walls of iron, still the fraying of my robe would be all that, for several minutes, it would accomplish. [1842, Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum:]
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In Taran's hand the sundered bone had turned into gray dust, which he cast aside. [1967, Lloyd Alexander, Taran Wanderer:]
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Two souls, the shores wave-mocked of sundering seas: —
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Such are we now. [1881 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Severed Selves, lines 8-9]
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… Carlo finally saw Everything, before it sunders into things; he saw Knowledge before it sunders into knowing; he saw Integrity before it sunders in integrals; he saw Unity before it sunders into units. [2003, Dean Barton, Searching for the Evergreen Man, Llumina Press, →ISBN, page 69:]
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Where a fair opportunity offers, and the grass is perfectly dry, the hipples are sundered; that is, broken out into beds in the usual manner, turned, and again got up into cocklets, of such size as the state of dryness requires. [1788, William Marshall, The Rural Economy of Yorkshire:]
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Except under abnormal conditions, protection can be afforded to a field by cutting a strip half a chain in width all round the field, with a reaper and binder for preference, when the crop is in the best condition for hay, and then ploughing or sunder-cutting the stubble. [1941, The Queensland Agricultural and Pastoral Handbook, page 82:]
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The trees and shrubs all around us began to show the signs of death; dried branches, leafless gray and molding wood. The ground here was as hard as stone, the dirt and dust dry as bone sundered in the desert scorch. [2010, Stony Stern, Run Past The Hunter, page 143:]
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The world, a good deal of it, sundered, scorched. [2013, Thomas Glave, Among the Bloodpeople: Politics and Flesh, page 165:]