Tuesday, 14 May 2013

Vocabulary : Word of the Day : Sunder

sun-der



verb :: To disunite in almost any manner, either by rending, cutting, or breaking; to part; to put or keep apart; to separate; to divide; to sever



To part; to separate.



A separation into parts; a division or severance.



To expose to the sun and wind.





"Notwithstanding terrifically wide sweep (some thirty feet or more) and the its hissing vigor of its descent, sufficient to sunder these very walls of iron, still the fraying of my robe would be all that, for several minutes, it would accomplish." -- Poe, Edgar Allan

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