Definitions for rend
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. rend, rip, rive, pullverb

   tear or be torn violently

   "The curtain ripped from top to bottom"; "pull the cooked chicken into strips"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. rendverb

   To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to tear asunder; to split; to burst

2. rendverb

   To part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force.

3. rendverb

   To be rent or torn; to become parted; to separate; to split.

4. 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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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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1. rend

   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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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

2. Rendverb

   to part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force

3. Rendverb

   to be rent or torn; to become parted; to separate; to split

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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 ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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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1. REND

   What does REND stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the REND acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

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1. nerd

2. dern

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of rend in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of rend in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of rend in a Sentence

1. William James:

   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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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=rend
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Rend
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=rend
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rend
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=rend