putting asunder
Tearing violently apart
Putting asunder means separating or dividing what was joined together.
The phrase appears most famously in traditional wedding vows: What God has joined together, let no man put asunder.
Outside religious contexts, it sounds deliberately archaic or formal, used for dramatic effect when describing the breaking apart of relationships, alliances, or unified things.
- estrangeCause emotional separation
- dichotomizeDivide into two parts
- splitSeparation into parts
- split upSever a union
- annulDeclare legally void
abrogate · sever · schism · alienate · polarize · put · cleave · break-up · fall apart · rescind · dissolve · divorce · nullify · terminate · rend · fracture · revoke · disjoin
putting asunderuniting
Combining into one
bringing together · unifying · merging · fusing · bonding
putting asunderholding together
Remaining unified, not separating
preserving · maintaining · upholding · binding · cementing
putting asundermaking whole
Returning to completeness
solemnizing · mending · repairing · healing · reconciling
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