Rend

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To tear or split apart or into pieces violently. See Synonyms at tear1.
  • v. To tear (one's garments or hair) in anguish or rage.
  • v. To tear away forcibly; wrest.
  • v. To pull, split, or divide as if by tearing: "Chip was rent between the impulse to laugh wildly and a bitterness that threatened hot tears” ( Louis Auchincloss).
  • v. To pierce or disturb with sound: a scream rent the silence.
  • v. To cause pain or distress to: tales that rend the heart.
  • verb-intransitive. To become torn or split; come apart.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to tear asunder; to split; to burst
  • v. To part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force.
  • v. To be rent or torn; to become parted; to separate; to split.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to tear asunder; to split; to burst
  • v. To part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force.
  • verb-intransitive. To be rent or torn; to become parted; to separate; to split.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; tear asunder; split.
  • To remove or pluck away with violence; tear away.
  • Synonyms Rip, Tear, Rend, Split, Cleave, Fracture, Chop. In garments we rip along the line at which they were sewed; we tear the texture of the cloth; we say, “It is not torn; it is only ripped.” More broadly, rip, especially with up, stands for a cutting open or apart with a quick, deep stroke: as, to rip up a body or a sack of meal. Rend implies great force or violence. To split is primarily to divide lengthwise or by the grain: as, to split wood. Cleave may be a more dignified word for split, or it may express a cutting apart by a straight, heavy stroke. Fracture may represent the next degree beyond cracking, the lightest kind of breaking, leaving the parts in place: as, a fractured bone or plate of glass; or it may be a more formal word for break. To chop is to cut apart with a heavy stroke, which is generally across the grain or natural cleavage, or through the narrow dimension of the material: chopping wood is thus distinguished from splitting wood.
  • To be or to become rent or torn; become disunited; split; part asunder.
  • To cause separation, division, or strife.
  • An obsolete variant of ren.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. tear or be torn violently
  • Verb Form
    rended    rending    rends    rent   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    rupture    bust    tear    snap   
    Cross Reference
    tear    destroy    to rap and rend   
    Variant
    rent   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    lacerate    break    rupture    crack    tear    split    burst    fracture    separate    divide   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    rent    wage    tax    income    debt    expense    dividend    cost    sum    pension