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sundered

[ suhn-derd ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

Archaic or Literary. separated or divided into parts or broken to pieces:
In Austria’s coat of arms, freedom is signified by a sundered iron chain ringing both talons of a black, red-tongued eagle.

It has been the author of the trauma of thousands of our soldiers, their limbs left over there, their families sundered.

They accept with equanimity the true horror of aging alone, sundered from family and community.

Afterwards King Olaf let Kark be taken away thence, & his head be sundered from his trunk.

You are mine now—body, soul, forever; for even in Paradise those who love are not sundered.

At a later date political differences completely sundered them.

Swiftly he turned his back, Reached he his hat from rack, Then from the screaming pack,Himself he sundered.

The northern invaders sundered the Semites of the West from those of the East.

April 18, 2024petrichor

[pet-ri-kawr]

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