rend

rend  (rnd)

v. rent (rnt) or rend·ed, rend·ing, rends

v.tr.

1. To tear or split apart or into pieces violently. See Synonyms at tear¹.

2. To tear (one's garments or hair) in anguish or rage.

3. To tear away forcibly; wrest.

4. 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).

5. To pierce or disturb with sound: a scream rent the silence.

6. To cause pain or distress to: tales that rend the heart.

v.intr.

To become torn or split; come apart.

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[Middle English renden, from Old English rendan.]

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rend [rɛnd]

vb rends, rending, rent

1. to tear with violent force or to be torn in this way; rip

2. (tr) to tear or pull (one's clothes, etc.), esp as a manifestation of rage or grief

3. (tr) (of a noise or cry) to disturb (the air, silence, etc.) with a shrill or piercing tone

4. (tr) to pain or distress (the heart, conscience, etc.)

[Old English rendan; related to Old Frisian renda]

rendible  adj

Thesaurus

Verb

1.

rend - tear or be torn violently; "The curtain ripped from top to bottom"; "pull the cooked chicken into strips" rip, rive, pull rupture, tear, snap, bust - separate or cause to separate abruptly; "The rope snapped"; "tear the paper"

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rend

verb (Literary) tear, break, split, rip, pull, separate, divide, crack, burst, smash, disturb, shatter, pierce, fracture, sever, wrench, splinter, rupture, cleave, lacerate, rive, tear to pieces, sunder (literary), dissever pain that rends the heart

Translations

rend [rend] (rent (pt, pp)) VT

1. (poet) (= tear) → rasgar, desgarrar; (= split) → hender
to rend sth in twain → partir algo por medio, hender algo
to rend one's clothes → rasgar or desgarrar su ropa

2. (fig) a cry rent the air → un grito cortó el aire

rend pret, ptp <rent>

vt (liter) cloth → zerreißen; armour → aufreißen; to rend something from somebody/something → jdm/einer Sache etw entreißen; a country rent by civil war → ein vom Bürgerkrieg zerrissenes Land; a cry rent the air → ein Schrei drang durch die Luft; to rend somebody’s heart → jdm das Herz zerreißen

rend [rɛnd] vt (rent (pt, pp)) (liter) → lacerare