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Webster 1913 Edition
Rend
Rend
(rĕnd)
, Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Rent
(rĕnt)
; 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. ræna
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
Doth
rend
the region. Shakespeare
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 , to snatch.
Rap
, Verb.
T.
Syn. – To tear; burst; break; rupture; lacerate; fracture; crack; split.
Rend
,Verb.
I.
To be rent or torn; to become parted; to separate; to split.
Jer. Taylor.
Webster 1828 Edition
Rend
REND
,Verb.
T.
1.
To separate any substance into parts with force or sudden violence; to tear asunder; to split; as, powder rends a rock in blasting; lightning rends an oak.An empire from its old foundation rent.
I rend my tresses, and by breast I wound.
Neither rend your clothes, lest ye die. Lev. 10.
2.
To separate or part with violence.I will surely rend the kingdom from thee. 1Kings 11.
To rend the heart, in Scripture, to have bitter sorrow for sin. Joel 2.
To rend the heavens, to appear in majesty. Is. 64.
Rend differs somewhat from lacerate. We never say, to lacerate a rock or a kingdom, when we mean to express splitting or division. Lacerate is properly applicable to the tearing off of small pieces of a thing, as to lacerate the body with a whip or scourge; or to the tearing of the flesh or other thing without entire separation.
Definition 2024
Rend
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See also: Rend
English
Verb
rend (third-person singular simple present rends, present participle rending, simple past and past participle rent or rended)
- (transitive) To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to tear asunder; to split; to burst
- Powder rends a rock in blasting.
- Lightning rends an oak.
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 1 scene 2
- If thou more murmur'st, I will rend an oak / And peg thee in his knotty entrails till / Thou hast howl'd away twelve winters.
- 1970, Alvin Toffler, Future Shock, Bantam Books, pg. 317:
- We are most vulnerable now to the messages of the new subcults, to the claims and counterclaims that rend the air.
- (transitive) To part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force.
- (intransitive) To be rent or torn; to become parted; to separate; to split.
- Relationships may rend if tempers flare.
- Rending of garments for shiva is a Jewish tradition.
Translations
to separate into parts with force
to part or tear off forcibly
Noun
rend (plural rends)
- A violent separation of parts.
- 2002, John S. Anderson, A Daughter of Light (page xvi)
- She'd been in a couple of minor car accidents herself, and witnessed a few others, and the rend of metal was unforgettable.
- 2002, John S. Anderson, A Daughter of Light (page xvi)
Anagrams
Albanian
Etymology 1
A nasal formation from *redhë, variant of rredhë (compare edhe ~ ende). Cognate to Lithuanian rindà (“row, line”), Latvian riñda (“row, line”), Old Church Slavonic rędь (rędĭ, “row, line”). See radhë.
Noun
rend m
- public order
Related terms
Etymology 2
From Proto-Albanian *renta from *rena, akin to Gothic rinnan (rinnan) and Old Norse rinna (“to run”)[1].
Verb
rend (first-person singular past tense renda, participle rendur)
References
- ↑ Orel, Vladimir (1998), “rend”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, page 386
Hungarian
Etymology
From a Slavic language, ultimately from Proto-Slavic *rędъ. Compare Serbo-Croatian red.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈrɛnd]
- Hyphenation: rend
Noun
rend (plural rendek)
Declension
| Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | rend | rendek |
| accusative | rendet | rendeket |
| dative | rendnek | rendeknek |
| instrumental | renddel | rendekkel |
| causal-final | rendért | rendekért |
| translative | renddé | rendekké |
| terminative | rendig | rendekig |
| essive-formal | rendként | rendekként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | rendben | rendekben |
| superessive | renden | rendeken |
| adessive | rendnél | rendeknél |
| illative | rendbe | rendekbe |
| sublative | rendre | rendekre |
| allative | rendhez | rendekhez |
| elative | rendből | rendekből |
| delative | rendről | rendekről |
| ablative | rendtől | rendektől |
| Possessive forms of rend | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | rendem | rendjeim |
| 2nd person sing. | rended | rendjeid |
| 3rd person sing. | rendje | rendjei |
| 1st person plural | rendünk | rendjeink |
| 2nd person plural | rendetek | rendjeitek |
| 3rd person plural | rendjük | rendjeik |