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Disjoin vs Sunder - What's the difference?

disjoin | sunder | Synonyms |

In transitive terms the difference between disjoin and sunder

is that disjoin is to separate; to disunite while sunder is to break or separate or to break apart, especially with force.

In intransitive terms the difference between disjoin and sunder

is that disjoin is to become separated while sunder is to part, separate.

As an adjective sunder is

sundry; separate; different.

As a noun sunder is

a separation into parts; a division or severance.

disjoin

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To separate; to disunite.
  • * Milton
  • That marriage, therefore, God himself disjoins .
  • * Addison
  • Never let us lay down our arms against France, till we have utterly disjoined her from the Spanish monarchy.
  • * Pennant
  • Windmill Street consisted of disjoined houses.
  • To become separated.
  • 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.
  • {{quote-book
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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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