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Definitions for REND
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Princeton's WordNet
rend, rip, rive, pullverb
tear or be torn violently
"The curtain ripped from top to bottom"; "pull the cooked chicken into strips"
Wiktionary
rendverb
To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to tear asunder; to split; to burst
rendverb
To part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force.
rendverb
To be rent or torn; to become parted; to separate; to split.
Etymology: From renden, from rendan, from hrandijanan, of uncertain origin. Believed by some to be the causitive of hrindanan, from ḱret-, in which case would relate it to hrindan. Cognate with rent, renda.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To RENDverb
pret. and pret. pass. rent. To tear with violence; to lacerate.
Etymology: rendan , Saxon.
Will you hence
Before the tag return, whose rage doth rend
Like interrupted waters, and o’erbear
What they are used to bear. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.He rent a lion as he would have rent a kid, and he had nothing in his hand. Jud. xiv. 4.
I will not rend away all the kingdom, but give one tribe to thy son. 1 Kings xi. 13.
By the thund’rer’s stroke it from th’ root is rent,
So sure the blows, which from high heaven are sent. Abraham Cowley.What you command me to relate,
Renews the sad remembrance of our fate,
An empire from its old foundations rent. Dryden.Look round to see
The lurking gold upon the fatal tree;
Then rend it off. John Dryden, Æneis.Is it not as much reason to say, when any monarchy was shattered to pieces, and divided amongst revolted subjects, that God was careful to preserve monarchical power, by rending a settled empire into a multitude of little governments. John Locke.
When its way th’ impetuous passion found,
I rend my tresses, and my breast I wound. Alexander Pope.From cloud to cloud the rending lightnings rage. James Thomson.
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To rend is to tear or rip something into two or more pieces, often with great force or violence. It can also mean to cause extreme emotional pain, as if tearing apart.
Webster Dictionary
Rendverb
to separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to tear asunder; to split; to burst; as, powder rends a rock in blasting; lightning rends an oak
Rendverb
to part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force
Rendverb
to be rent or torn; to become parted; to separate; to split
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Rend
rend, v.t. to tear asunder with force: to split: to tear away.—v.i. to become torn: pa.t. and pa.p. rent. [A.S. rendan, to tear.]
Editors Contribution
rendverb
To tear (something) into pieces.
I rent the picture of his father and mother quarrelling.
Submitted by zakaria1409 on July 12, 2022
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of REND in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of REND in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of REND in a Sentence
I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big success. I am for those tiny, invisible loving human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capilillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man's pride.
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