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Berend ‎(m)

See also: Berend

berend ‎(third-person singular simple present berends, present participle berending, simple past and past participle berent)

(transitive) To rend or tear severely; tear badly; rip all over.
- 1904, Elizabethan sonnets:
  Then red with ire, her tresses she berent; And weeping hid the beauty of her face: