{ "asunder":{ "type":[ "adverb", "adverb or adjective" ], "definitions":{ ": into parts":[ "torn asunder" ], ": apart from each other":[ "\u2026 he staggered away, with his legs very wide asunder .", "\u2014 Charles Dickens" ] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u0259-\u02c8s\u0259n-d\u0259r" ], "synonyms":[ "apart", "piecemeal" ], "antonyms":[ "together" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[ "Recent Examples on the Web", "Once asunder , the spikes can no longer help the virus attach. \u2014 Megan Scudellari, Scientific American , 11 Feb. 2022", "Instead, these miserable souls come back to life and serve the Demigods who tore the land asunder . \u2014 Brittany Vincent, BGR , 26 Feb. 2022", "Zack's idyllic life is torn asunder when confronted with his attraction to other men. \u2014 Jessica Wang, EW.com , 14 Feb. 2022", "The novel\u2019s eighteen episodes, each contrived according to an elaborate scheme of correspondences\u2014Homeric parallels, hours of the day, organs of the body\u2014are torn asunder . \u2014 Merve Emre, The New Yorker , 7 Feb. 2022", "An extended family with deep roots in the Portland area has been torn asunder after both parents died while fighting COVID-19. \u2014 oregonlive , 15 Jan. 2022", "At least eight people there died as the building was ripped asunder . \u2014 Travis Caldwell And Jennifer Henderson, CNN , 15 Dec. 2021", "An invisible line has carved through this South Coast city for a decade, leaving its southern edge in one congressional district, its northern neighborhoods in another, and critics argue, its political influence split asunder between the two. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 8 Nov. 2021", "Some mighty tornado, or resistless cyclone, may rend its massive blocks asunder and hurl huge fragments to the ground. \u2014 Nora Mcgreevy, Smithsonian Magazine , 20 Aug. 2021" ], "history_and_etymology":{ "see sunder":"" }, "first_known_use":{ "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-022224" }, "Asunci\u00f3n":{ "type":[ "geographical name" ], "definitions":{ "city and capital of Paraguay on the Paraguay River at its confluence with the Pilcomayo River population 502,426":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u00e4-s\u00fcn-\u02c8sy\u014dn" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-143428" }, "asudden":{ "type":[ "adverb" ], "definitions":{ ": suddenly":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u0259\u02c8-" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{ "a- entry 1 + sudden":"" }, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-144856" } }