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Definition of Asunder
1. Adjective. Widely separated especially in space. "As wide asunder as pole from pole"
2. Adverb. Into parts or pieces. "Torn asunder"
Definition of Asunder
1. adv. Apart; separate from each other; into parts; in two; separately; into or in different pieces or places.
Definition of Asunder
1. Adverb. Into separate parts or pieces; apart. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Asunder
1. into pieces [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Asunder
Literary usage of Asunder
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"In Skara the meteor, followed by a beautifully luminous streak of fire, appeared
to fall asunder, throwing out sparks strongly at the same time, ..."
2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"the water out in torrents: then we have cleft the earth asunder, ... THE CHAPTER
OF THE CLEAVING asunder IN the name of the merciful and compassionate God. ..."
3. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"DIVERGE, to part asunder, tend to spread apart. (L.) ' Divergent or Diverging
Rays, in opticks, are those rays which, going from a point of a visible object ..."
4. The Annals of Roger de Hoveden: Comprising the History of England and of by Roger, Roger of Hoveden, Henry Thomas Riley (1853)
"... namely, the Holy Church, those who think with us are unwilling to have rent
asunder, while those who differ from us are striving to rend it asunder. ..."
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