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sunder

verbCommon GRE wordMore S words

to split apart or sever forcibly

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Sunder in a sentence

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War sundered families that had lived side by side for generations.

Synonyms
seversplitcleave
Antonyms
joinunite

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Far from being the revolutionary thinker his admirers claimed, the philosopher was in fact quite blank, defending the traditional doctrines of his teachers without challenge.

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Sunder (verb) means to split apart or sever forcibly
Here is sunder used in an example sentence: "War sundered families that had lived side by side for generations."
Common synonyms for sunder include sever, split, cleave.
Antonyms of sunder include join, unite.
Sunder is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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