adj
Meaning 1
Sundry; separate; different.
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Usage: dialectal, obsolete
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adj
Sundry; separate; different.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal, obsolete
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noun
a separation into parts; a division or severance
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verb
To break or separate or to break apart, especially with force.
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verb
To part, separate.
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verb
To expose to the sun and wind.
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Usage: UK, dated, dialectal, transitive
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verb
break apart or in two, using violence
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Broader terms: break up, fragment, fragmentize, fragmentise
History
From Middle English sunder, from Old English sundor- (“separate, different”), from Proto-Germanic *sundraz (“isolated, particular, alone”), from Proto-Indo-European *snter-, *seni-, *senu-, *san- (“apart, without, for oneself”). Cognate with Old Saxon sundar (“particular, special”), Dutch zonder (“without”), German sonder- (“special”), German sondern (“to separate, set apart”), Old Norse sundr (“separate”), Danish sønder (“apart, asunder”), Latin sine (“without”).
From Middle English sundren (“to separate, part, divide”), from Old English sundrian (“to separate, split, part, divide”), from Proto-Germanic *sundrōną (“to separate”), from Proto-Indo-European *sen(e)- (“separate, without”). Cognate with Scots sinder, sunder (“to separate, divide, split up”), Dutch zonderen (“to isolate”), German sondern (“to separate”), Swedish söndra (“to divide”). More at sundry.
Across languages
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