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sunder

/suhn-der/US // ˈsʌn dər //UK // (ˈsʌndə) archaic, or literary //

肃清,肃杀,肃穆,肃静

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to separate; part; divide; sever.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to become separated; part.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • For "smite in sunder, or wound the heads;" some word answering to the Latin conquassare.

  • With the passing of the years, many changes have occurred to sunder the friendships formed during those boylike expeditions.

  • The mountains will sunder me from my dead—my buried wife—my three brave sons, all lying in one grave, killed within a month.

  • But thou mayst heal it if thou wilt take thy words back, and tell me that thou wilt not sunder thee from us.

  • But thou wottest, dear lad, that whiles and again must sister sunder from brother, and even so it has to be now.