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Meaning of put asunder | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

To sunder; disjoin; separate.

ambitransitive

Examples

“What therefore God hath ioyned together, let not man put asunder.”
“But when husband Hilton began to play too many games involving such expressions as "snake eyes," she fled into the arms of Michael Wilding, a handsome English prince who had himself been married once and put asunder but who was still in fine shape.”
“Luther touched on an additional argument that when a Christian magistrate "puts asunder" a marriage, he is in fact operating as God, since he is God's vice-regent.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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