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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Rend  \Rend\  (r[e^]nd),  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Rent}  (r?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?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},  v.  t.,  to  snatch. 
 
  Syn:  To  tear;  burst;  break;  rupture;  lacerate;  fracture; 
  crack;  split. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  rending 
  adj  :  resembling  a  sound  of  violent  tearing  as  of  something  ripped 
  apart  or  lightning  splitting  a  tree;  "the  tree  split 
  with  a  great  ripping  sound";  "heard  a  rending  roar  as 
  the  crowd  surged  forward"  [syn:  {ripping},  {splitting}]




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