asunder adj : widely separated especially in space; "as wide asunder as pole from pole" [syn: asunder(p)] adv : into parts or pieces; "he took his father's watch apart"; "split apart"; "torn asunder" [syn: apart]

English

Etymology

Cognates; Swedish sönder, Dutch zonder and Icelandic sundur.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʌndə(r)

Adverb

asunder

1. Into separate parts or pieces; apart

   Lest anyone find her treasure, she tore the map asunder and cast its pieces into the wind.

Translations

• Finnish: hajalle, kahtia

See also

• in twain

adrift, all to pieces, apart, apart from, aside from, at a distance, away, away from, bipartite, by two, dichotomous, discontinuous, discrete, distal, distant, distinct, divergent, exotic, far, far off, faraway, fifty-fifty, half-and-half, in half, in halves, in the abstract, in twain, in two, incoherent, insular, long-distance, long-range, noncohesive, one by one, partitioned, piecemeal, remote, removed, separate, separated, separately, severally, sky-high, to shreds, unassociated, unattached, unattended, unconnected, unjoined