dissunder

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verb

To separate; to break apart; to destroy.

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Meanings

verbdissunder (third-person singular simple present dissunders, present participle dissundering, simple past and past participle dissundered)

present singular third person dissunders · participle present dissundering · participle past dissundered · past dissundered

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo separate; to break apart; to destroy.

    But he himself solemniz'd a retreat To th' Æthiops, far dissunder'd in their seat

    1614–1615, Homer, “The First Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume I, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC

Origin

From dis- + sunder.

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APA

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MLA

“dissunder.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dissunder. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dissunder,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dissunder.

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