1. separated or divided, especially forcefully or completely
Usage: literary; formal

Examples

• The sundered rope lay in two pieces on the ground.
• After the bitter argument, the once-close friends remained sundered.
• The earthquake left the bridge sundered and impassable.
• The sundered kingdom struggled to reunite after the civil war.
• Their sundered relationship could never be fully repaired.
• The storm left the ship’s mast sundered from its base.