dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/asu_MW.json
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{
"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"
}
}