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[syn: apart, asunder]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Asunder \A*sun"der\, adv. [Pref. a- + sunder.]
   Apart; separate from each other; into parts; in two;
   separately; into or in different pieces or places.
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         I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder.
                                                  --Zech. xi.
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         As wide asunder as pole and pole.        --Froude.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
asunder
    adv 1: into parts or pieces; "he took his father's watch apart";
           "split apart"; "torn asunder" [syn: apart, asunder]
    adj 1: widely separated especially in space; "as wide asunder as
           pole from pole"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
49 Moby Thesaurus words for "asunder":
   adrift, all to pieces, apart, apart from, aside from,
   at a distance, away, away from, bipartite, by two, dichotomous,
   discontinuous, discrete, distal, distant, distinct, divergent,
   exotic, far, far off, faraway, fifty-fifty, half-and-half, in half,
   in halves, in the abstract, in twain, in two, incoherent, insular,
   long-distance, long-range, noncohesive, one by one, partitioned,
   piecemeal, remote, removed, separate, separated, separately,
   severally, sky-high, to shreds, unassociated, unattached,
   unattended, unconnected, unjoined