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rend
- /ɹɛnd/
Rhymes with -ɛnd
Where it comes from
From Middle English renden, from Old English rendan (“to rend, tear, cut, lacerate, cut down”), from Proto-West Germanic *(h)randijan (“to tear”), of uncertain origin. Believed by some to be the causative of Proto-Germanic *hrindaną (“to push”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱret-, *kret- (“to hit, beat”), which would make it related to Old English hrindan (“to thrust, push”). Cognate with Scots rent (“to rend, tear”), Old Frisian renda (“to tear”).
verb rends · rending · rent · rended
- To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to split; to burst. Powder rends a rock in blasting.
- To violently disturb the peace of; to throw into chaos. a scream that rent the air
- To part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force; to amputate. A time to rent, and a time to sow: a time to keepe silence, and a time to speake.
- To be rent or torn; to become parted; to separate; to split. Relationships may rend if tempers flare.
noun rends
- A violent separation of parts. She'd been in a couple of minor car accidents herself, and witnessed a few others, and the rend of metal was unforgettable.
