Definition of "sunder" [sun•der]

• To break or wrench apart; sever. See Synonyms at separate. (verb-transitive)
• To break into parts. (verb-intransitive)
• A division or separation. (noun)

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• "“I must cleave in sunder that which has been joined.”"
• "As I lay wondering at this lo! it ran upon me and smiting me with its claws, rent my belly in sunder; whereupon I awoke startled and trembling."
• "Now the badawi was bent double with the blow, so Gharib smote him with his mace and clove his forehead in sunder and he fell down dead and"