sunder

The sundered ship fans out like a deck of cards then collapses, smoldering.

They spoke of how their community would be sundered and friendships lost, because their public school is at the center of these bonds.

But when the university ordered them off campus, their sense of safety was sundered.

And not now, as Israeli airstrikes crashed around him for the third week, erasing more of his neighborhood and sundering hundreds of families and friendships.

Although the region had been volcanically dormant for centuries, the tectonic sundering happening in the depths meant that the latest eruptions have long been in the works.