Asunder
adverb
Into separate parts or pieces.
The explosion tore the building asunder
Often appears as...
- tear asunder
- rip asunder
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Formal
adverb
In separate directions.
The crowd scattered asunder at the sound of gunshots
Often appears as...
- scatter asunder
- spread asunder
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Formal
Literary
adverb
Destroyed or ruined.
The kingdom was torn asunder by civil war
Often appears as...
- torn asunder
- cast asunder
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
Literary
adverb
Into separate parts or pieces.
The explosion tore the building asunder
Often appears as...
- tear asunder
- rip asunder
Usage tips
Formal
adverb
In separate directions.
The crowd scattered asunder at the sound of gunshots
Often appears as...
- scatter asunder
- spread asunder
Usage tips
Formal
Literary
adverb
Destroyed or ruined.
The kingdom was torn asunder by civil war
Often appears as...
- torn asunder
- cast asunder
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
Literary
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Dramatic Effect
Used for emphasis in dramatic situations, often describes violent separation.
The once inseparable duo was now rent asunder by betrayal.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Breakage
Describes physical objects being split or broken forcefully.
The ancient vase fell and cracked asunder upon the hard floor.
Pro Tip 3/3Natural Disasters
Often used in narratives involving earthquakes, storms, or explosions.
The earthquake shook the ground and cleaved the highway asunder.
Pro Tip 1/3Dramatic Effect
Used for emphasis in dramatic situations, often describes violent separation.
The once inseparable duo was now rent asunder by betrayal.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Breakage
Describes physical objects being split or broken forcefully.
The ancient vase fell and cracked asunder upon the hard floor.
Pro Tip 3/3Natural Disasters
Often used in narratives involving earthquakes, storms, or explosions.
The earthquake shook the ground and cleaved the highway asunder.
Pro Tip 1/3Dramatic Effect
Used for emphasis in dramatic situations, often describes violent separation.
The once inseparable duo was now rent asunder by betrayal.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Breakage
Describes physical objects being split or broken forcefully.
The ancient vase fell and cracked asunder upon the hard floor.
Pro Tip 3/3Natural Disasters
Often used in narratives involving earthquakes, storms, or explosions.
The earthquake shook the ground and cleaved the highway asunder.
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The idea that though we are different, we must choose to be united, but now it's our turn. Our challenge is to come together to preserve our collective self-interest and humanity rather than tearing ourselves asunder.
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Humanity's planet-shaping...
The idea that though we are different, we must choose to be united, but now it's our turn. Our challenge is to come together to preserve our collective self-interest and humanity rather than tearing ourselves asunder.
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Pliny the Elder
Roman Author
Our forefathers regarded as a prodigy the passage of the Alps: first by Hannibal and, more recently, by the Cimbri; but at the present day, these very mountains are cut asunder to yield us a thousand different marbles; promontories are thrown open to the sea; and the face of Nature is being everywhere reduced to a level.
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Pliny the Elder
Roman Author
We trace out all the veins of the earth, and yet, living upon it, undermined as it is beneath our feet, are astonished that it should occasionally cleave asunder or tremble: as though, forsooth, these signs could be any other than expressions of the indignation felt by our sacred parent!
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Alice Morse Earle
American Historian
In the seventeenth century, the science of medicine had not wholly cut asunder from astrology and necromancy; and the trusting Christian still believed in some occult influences, chiefly planetary, which governed not only his crops but his health and life.
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Francis Bacon
English Philosopher
The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
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John F. Kennedy
American President
Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.
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Jonathan Swift
Irish Writer
Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.
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Virginia Woolf
British Author
The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
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Algernon Sidney
English Politician
Everyone sees they cannot well live asunder, nor many together, without some rule to which all must submit.
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Charles Caleb Colton
English Writer
Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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Pliny the Elder
Roman Author
Our forefathers regarded as a prodigy the passage of the Alps: first by Hannibal and, more recently, by the Cimbri; but at the present day, these very mountains are cut asunder to yield us a thousand different marbles; promontories are thrown open to the sea; and the face of Nature is being everywhere reduced to a level.
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Pliny the Elder
Roman Author
We trace out all the veins of the earth, and yet, living upon it, undermined as it is beneath our feet, are astonished that it should occasionally cleave asunder or tremble: as though, forsooth, these signs could be any other than expressions of the indignation felt by our sacred parent!
Quote examples
Alice Morse Earle
American Historian
In the seventeenth century, the science of medicine had not wholly cut asunder from astrology and necromancy; and the trusting Christian still believed in some occult influences, chiefly planetary, which governed not only his crops but his health and life.
Quote examples
Francis Bacon
English Philosopher
The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
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John F. Kennedy
American President
Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.
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Jonathan Swift
Irish Writer
Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.
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Virginia Woolf
British Author
The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
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Algernon Sidney
English Politician
Everyone sees they cannot well live asunder, nor many together, without some rule to which all must submit.
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Charles Caleb Colton
English Writer
Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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