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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

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— Saint Augustin • Louis Bertrand

... O jour trois fois heureux! Que bni soit le del qui te rend ines voeux, Toi qui de Benjamin comme moi descendue, Fus de mes premiers ans la compagne assidue, Et qui, d'un mme joug souffrant l'oppression, 5 M'aidais soupirer les malheurs de Sion. Combien ce temps encore est cher ma mmoire! Mais toi, de ton Esther ignorais-tu la gloire? Depuis ...

— Esther • Jean Racine

... when I think on the miseries that must rend the heart of a doating parent, when he sees the darling of his age at first seduced from his protection, and afterwards abandoned, by the very wretch whose promises of love decoyed her from the paternal roof—when he sees her poor and wretched, her bosom tom between remorse ...

— Charlotte Temple • Susanna Rowson

... pour out her heart to him. Then came complaints, some tenderly pleading, others passionately bitter, of her cruelly rare and meagre replies. The sad truth, that Josephine cares much for his fame and little for him himself, that she delays coming to Italy, these and other afflicting details rend his heart. At last she comes to Milan, after a passionate outburst of weeping—at leaving her beloved Paris. In Italy she shows herself scarcely more than affectionate to her doting spouse. Marlborough's letters to his peevish duchess during the Blenheim campaign are not more crowded with maudlin ...

— The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2) • John Holland Rose

... with horns that rend and gore My army rushes through the world; The white plumes flutter in the fore, Like mists before a tempest whirled; The roaring sea when storms are strong Is not so fierce, the lion's wrath Is tame when swells the battle-song That frights ...

— Kafir Stories - Seven Short Stories • William Charles Scully

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