sunder

SUN'DER, verb transitive 1. To part; to separate; to divide; to disunite in almost any manner, either by rending, cutting, or breaking; as, to sunder a rope or cord; to sunder a limb or joint; to sunder friends, or the ties of friendship. The executioner sunders the head from the body at a stroke. A mountain may be sundered by an earthquake.Bring me lightning, give me thunder; --Jove may kill, but ne'er shall sunder 2. To expose to the sun. [Provincial in England.]SUN'DER, noun In sunder in tow.He cutteth the spear in sunder Psalms 46:9