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Rend v. t. (past & past part. rent; pres. part. rending)

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."

To part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force. "An empire from its old foundations rent." "I will surely rend the kingdom from thee."

To rap and rend. See under Rap, v. t., to snatch.

Synonyms: To tear; burst; break; rupture; lacerate; fracture; crack; split.

Rend v. i. (past & past part. rent; pres. part. rending) To be rent or torn; to become parted; to separate; to split.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Rend" Quotes from Famous Books

... return—although the men worked as only those can who toil for liberation from long imprisonment, no impression worth mentioning could be made on the ice. At length the attempt to rend it by means ...

— The World of Ice • R.M. Ballantyne

... which in my other life had been Quito, the kingdom of Atahuallpa, to the southern confines of Bolivia, which had once been part of the Land of the Four Regions, the dominions of my own father, all were ready to throw down their long-borne burdens and turn and rend their oppressors and those whose fathers had robbed them of the land ...

— The Romance of Golden Star ... • George Chetwynd Griffith

... seen the timid tear, Steal trembling from mine eye? Have you not marked the flush of fear, Or caught the murmured sigh? And can you think my love is chill, Nor fixt on you alone? And can you rend, by doubting still, A heart so ...

— The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al

... seemed to make him deaf to cautious overtures. If he had only known it, there was the very thing he wanted. But how could you bargain with a man of that sort? It was like going into a tiger's den with a piece of raw meat in your hand. He was as likely as not to rend you for your pains. In fact, he was always threatening to do that very thing; and the urgency of the case, combined with the impossibility of handling it with safety, made Sterne in his watches below toss and mutter open-eyed in his bunk, for ...

— End of the Tether • Joseph Conrad

... contracting, with infinite slowness, but with infinite force. This pressure must result in mechanical strain somewhere, both in their own substance, and in that of the rocks surrounding them; and we can form no conception of the result of irresistible pressure, applied so as to rend and raise, with imperceptible slowness of gradation, masses thousands of feet in thickness. We want some experiments tried on masses of iron and stone; and we can't get them tried, because Christian creatures never will seriously and sufficiently spend ...

— The Ethics of the Dust • John Ruskin

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