sunder
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Definition of sunder
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Synonyms & Antonyms for sunder
Synonyms
break up, decouple, disassociate, disconnect, disjoin, disjoint, dissever, dissociate, disunite, divide, divorce, part, ramify, resolve, separate, sever, split, uncouple, unlink, unyoke
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Examples of sunder in a Sentence
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The glow faded when the Iraq war sundered Mr Blair from the French and the Germans. — The Economist, "Eurocrats know Boris Johnson well, making no-deal Brexit more likely," 15 Aug. 2019 The unprotected noticed, and began to sunder their relationship with establishments and elites. — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, "Republicans Need to Save Capitalism," 14 Feb. 2019 These practices were sundered with the ascension of Donald J. Trump to the presidency. — New York Times, "At Graduation, a Son in the Limelight and a Father in the Shadows," 3 July 2018 Bob Corker and Lindsey Graham are working on an alternative that would send a message to the Saudis without sundering the relationship. — The Editorial Board, WSJ, "The Senate and the Saudis," 3 Dec. 2018 Unfortunately, the idyllic mood is sundered every so often with tinny canned music blared over loudspeakers attached to lampposts throughout. — Julie V. Iovine, WSJ, "The Most Ambitious Park in Russia," 25 July 2018 The minds of many viewers will immediately drift away from the fictional narrative and toward the actual events of recent weeks, along the same boundary, where children have been sundered from their immigrant parents and housed in detention centers. — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, "The Borderland Brutality of “Sicario 2: Soldado”," 9 July 2017 About one-fifth of the core structural columns in each tower were sundered by the planes. — New York Times, "The Last 9/11 Fire Chief Bows Out," 10 July 2018 Alanoud Aljalahma, a 22-year-old premedical student, recounts how the rift between the Gulf’s royal clans threatened to sunder her own family. — The Economist, "Cold war in the heatWhy Gulf countries are feuding with Qatar," 21 June 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'sunder.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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