Ascertain vs Sunder - What's the difference?
ascertain | sunder |
To find out definitely; to discover or establish.
* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
, title=
, chapter=1 To break or separate or to break apart, especially with force.
To , separate.
(UK, dialect, dated, transitive) To expose to the sun and wind.
a separation into parts; a division or severance
* 1939 , , Additional Poems , VII, lines 2-4
As a verb ascertain
is to find out definitely; to discover or establish.As a preposition sunder is
without.ascertain
English
Verb
(en verb)citation, passage=“There the cause of death was soon ascertained ?; the victim of this daring outrage had been stabbed to death from ear to ear with a long, sharp instrument, in shape like an antique stiletto, which […] was subsequently found under the cushions of the hansom. […]”}}
- As soon as we ascertain what the situation is, we can plan how to proceed.
Synonyms
* determine * discover * establish * find out * learn * work outAnagrams
*sunder
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) .Derived terms
*Etymology 2
From (etyl) . More at sundry.Verb
(en verb)- {{quote-book
citation, genre= , publisher=Llumina Press , isbn=9781932047233 , page=69 , passage=… Carlo finally saw Everything, before it sunders' into things; he saw Knowledge before it '''sunders''' into knowing; he saw Integrity before it '''sunders''' in integrals; he saw Unity before it ' sunders into units. }}
- (Halliwell)
Quotations
* 1881 , Severed Selves, lines 8-9 *: '' Two souls, the shores wave-mocked of sundering seas: — *: '' Such are we now.Derived terms
* asunder * sunderanceNoun
(en noun)- 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.