Search Result for "asunder":
Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1. widely separated especially in space;
- Example: "as wide asunder as pole from pole"
ADVERB (1)
1. into parts or pieces;
- Example: "he took his father's watch apart"
- Example: "split apart"
- Example: "torn asunder"
[syn: apart, asunder]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Asunder \A*sun"der\, adv. [Pref. a- + sunder.] Apart; separate from each other; into parts; in two; separately; into or in different pieces or places. [1913 Webster] I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder. --Zech. xi. 10. [1913 Webster] As wide asunder as pole and pole. --Froude. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
49 Moby Thesaurus words for "asunder": 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
