"put asunder" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From put + asunder.",
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          "ref": "1962 April 13, LIFE",
          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "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.",
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        "To sunder; disjoin; separate."
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          "sunder",
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        "(transitive, intransitive) To sunder; disjoin; separate."
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  "etymology_text": "From put + asunder.",
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