asunder

[ uh-suhn-der ]

/ əˈsʌn dər /

into separate parts; in or into pieces: Lightning split the old oak tree asunder.

apart or widely separated: as wide asunder as the polar regions.

Origin of asunder

before 1000; Middle English; Old English on sundrum apart. See a-¹, sundry

astute, astyanax, astylar, asu, asunción, asunder, asur, asura, asw, aswan, aswan dam

What singular warning of chance or of destiny tore them asunder?

Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) |Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Factions, of every degree of tyranny and vice, tore it asunder.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 63, No. 392, June, 1848 |Various
To distract, means literally to pull a thing two different ways—even to pull it asunder.

All Saints' Day and Other Sermons |Charles Kingsley
Hand in hand we must take our way, and death alone could tear us asunder.

The Betrayal of John Fordham |B.L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon

And straightway Attus took the whetstone and cut it asunder.

Stories From Livy |Alfred Church

asunder

/ (əˈsʌndə) /

(postpositive) in or into parts or pieces; apart to tear asunder

Old English on sundran apart; see sunder