sunder
Plural: sunders
Verb
Verb Forms: sundered, sundering, sunders
- To break apart or separate into distinct pieces.
- break apart or in two, using violence
- To break or separate or to break apart, especially with force.
- To part, separate.
- To expose to the sun and wind.
Adj
- Sundry; separate; different.
Noun
- a separation into parts; a division or severance
Examples
- He tried to sunder his opponent’s long word, but it held firm.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English sunder, from Old English sundor- (“separate, different”), from Proto-Germanic *sundraz (“isolated, particular, alone”), from Proto-Indo-European *snter-, *seni-, *senu-, *san- (“apart, without, for oneself”). Cognate with Old Saxon sundar (“particular, special”), Dutch zonder (“without”), German sonder- (“special”), German sondern (“to separate, set apart”), Old Norse sundr (“separate”), Danish sønder (“apart, asunder”), Latin sine (“without”).
Scrabble Score: 7
sunder: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordsunder: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
sunder: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary