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dissunder

dissunder verb: to separate; to break apart; to destroy.

Verb

dissunder (third-person singular simple present dissunders, present participle dissundering, simple past and past participle dissundered)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To separate; to break apart; to destroy.
    • But he himself solemniz'd a retreat
      To th' Æthiops, far dissunder'd in their seat1614–1615, Homer, “The First Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615...

Forms of dissunder

third-person singular presentdissunders
present participledissundering
past participledissundered
pastdissundered

Origin of dissunder

From dis- + sunder.

Questions about dissunder

What does dissunder mean?
Dissunder means to separate; to break apart; to destroy.
What part of speech is dissunder?
Dissunder is a verb.
What is the past tense of dissunder?
The past tense of dissunder is dissundered.

Words near dissunder in the dictionary

  1. dissuasive
  2. dissuasively
  3. dissuasiveness
  4. dissuasives
  5. dissuasory
  6. dissunder
  7. dissundered
  8. dissundering
  9. dissunders
  10. disswade
  11. disswasion

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