Detach vs Sunder - What's the difference?

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Detach is a related term of sunder.

As a verb detach

is to take apart from; to take off.

As a preposition sunder is

without.

detach

English

Verb

(es)

To take apart from; to take off.

to detach the tag from a newly purchased garment

(military) To separate for a special object or use.

to detach a ship from a fleet, or a company from a regiment

Antonyms

* attach

Derived terms

* detachable * detachment

sunder

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl), from (etyl) .

Adjective

(en adjective)

(dialectal, or, obsolete) Sundry; separate; different.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From (etyl) . More at sundry.

Verb

(en verb)

To break or separate or to break apart, especially with force.

To , separate.

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(UK, dialect, dated, transitive) To expose to the sun and wind.

(Halliwell)

Quotations

* 1881 , Severed Selves, lines 8-9 *: '' Two souls, the shores wave-mocked of sundering seas: — *: '' Such are we now.

Derived terms

* asunder * sunderance

Noun

(en noun)

a separation into parts; a division or severance

* 1939 , , Additional Poems , VII, lines 2-4

He would not stay for me to stand and gaze.

I shook his hand and tore my heart in sunder

And went with half my life about my ways.

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