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asundered

asundered is the simple past and past participle of asunder.

Meaning of asunder

Verb

asunder (third-person singular simple present asunders, present participle asundering, simple past and past participle asundered)

  1. (archaic, literary, transitive) To set apart (one or more people or things) from other people or things; to put asunder, to separate, to sunder.
    • A plough beetle, ploughſtaff, to further the plough, / great clod to a ſunder that breaketh ſo rough: […]1580, Thomas Tusser, “A Digression to Husbandlie Furniture”, in Fiue Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie: […], London: […] Henrie Denham [beeing the assigne of William Seres] […], →OCLC, stanza 10...

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Questions about asundered

What is asundered the simple past and past participle of?
Asundered is the simple past and past participle of asunder.

Words near asundered in the dictionary

  1. asulam
  2. asun
  3. asunaprevir
  4. Asunción
  5. asunder
  6. asundered
  7. asundering
  8. asunderness
  9. asunders
  10. asundre
  11. asur

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Adapted from Wiktionary: asundered (page history and authors); asunder (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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