释义 |
sunder /ˈsʌndə /verb [with object] literarySplit apart: a universe sundered ages ago in a divine war...- But the process is apparently irreversible and non-renewable, and so if physical strain sunders the fibril bonds, tearing the tendon, it is impossible to reform them, at least in living tissue.
- Alienated from truthful knowledge, and unable to trust perceptual data without supplementary information, the individual is sundered from the world.
- They are simply sundered, and to bridge them is a task, not a gift.
Phrases Origin Late Old English sundrian; related to German sondern. Rhymes asunder, blunder, chunder, hereunder, plunder, rotunda, thereunder, thunder, under, up-and-under, wonder |