 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
rend
verb: tear or be torn violently; "The curtain ripped from top to
bottom"; "pull the cooked chicken into strips" [syn: {rip},
{rive}, {pull}]
[also: {rent}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Rend \Rend\ (r[e^]nd), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Rent} (r[e^]nt); p.
pr. & vb. n. {Rending}.] [AS. rendan, hrendan; cf. OFries.
renda, randa, Fries. renne to cut, rend, Icel. hrinda to
push, thrust, AS. hrindan; or cf. Icel. r[ae]na to rob,
plunder, Ir. rannaim to divide, share, part, W. rhanu, Armor.
ranna.]
1. 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.
The dreadful thunder
Doth rend the region. --Shak.
2. To part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force.
An empire from its old foundations rent. --Dryden.
I will surely rend the kingdom from thee. --1 Kings
xi. 11.
{To rap and rend}. See under {Rap}, verb (used with an object), to snatch.
Syn: To tear; burst; break; rupture; lacerate; fracture;
crack; split.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Rend \Rend\, verb (used without an object)
To be rent or torn; to become parted; to separate; to split.
--Jer. Taylor.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
134 Moby Thesaurus words for "rend":
abrade, afflict, amputate, atomize, ax, badger, bark, bisect,
blackmail, blemish, bloody, break, break to pieces, burn, butcher,
carve, chafe, check, chip, chop, claim, claw, cleave, crack, craze,
cut, cut away, cut in two, cut off, demand, demolish, dichotomize,
disassemble, disintegrate, dismantle, dissever, distress, divide,
exact, excise, extort, fissure, force from, fracture, fragment,
fray, frazzle, fret, gall, gash, hack, halve, hew, hurt, incise,
injure, jigsaw, lacerate, lance, levy blackmail, maim,
make mincemeat of, mangle, maul, mutilate, pain, pare,
pick to pieces, pierce, prune, pry loose from, pull in pieces,
pull to pieces, pulverize, puncture, reduce to rubble, rend from,
rip, rip from, rive, run, rupture, savage, saw, scald, scissor,
scorch, scotch, scrape, scratch, screw, scuff, separate, sever,
shake down, shatter, shred, skin, slash, slice, slit, smash, smite,
snatch from, snip, split, sprain, squeeze, stab, stick, strain,
sunder, take apart, tear, tear apart, tear from, tear to pieces,
tear to shreds, tear to tatters, torment, total, traumatize,
unbuild, undo, unmake, whittle, wound, wrack up, wreck, wrench,
wrench from, wrest, wring, wring from
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