rend

rend
    v 1: tear or be torn violently; "The curtain ripped from top to
         bottom"; "pull the cooked chicken into strips" [syn:
         {rend}, {rip}, {rive}, {pull}]
    

Rend \Rend\, v. i.
   To be rent or torn; to become parted; to separate; to split.
   --Jer. Taylor.
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Rend \Rend\ (r[e^]nd), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rent} (r[e^]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[ae]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.
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            The dreadful thunder
            Doth rend the region.                 --Shak.
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   2. To part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force.
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            An empire from its old foundations rent. --Dryden.
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            I will surely rend the kingdom from thee. --1 Kings
                                                  xi. 11.
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   {To rap and rend}. See under {Rap}, v. t., to snatch.
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   Syn: To tear; burst; break; rupture; lacerate; fracture;
        crack; split.
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134 Moby Thesaurus words for "rend":
      abrade, afflict, amputate, atomize, ax, badger, bark, bisect,
      blackmail, blemish, bloody, break, break to pieces, burn, butcher,
      carve, chafe, check, chip, chop, claim, claw, cleave, crack, craze,
      cut, cut away, cut in two, cut off, demand, demolish, dichotomize,
      disassemble, disintegrate, dismantle, dissever, distress, divide,
      exact, excise, extort, fissure, force from, fracture, fragment,
      fray, frazzle, fret, gall, gash, hack, halve, hew, hurt, incise,
      injure, jigsaw, lacerate, lance, levy blackmail, maim,
      make mincemeat of, mangle, maul, mutilate, pain, pare,
      pick to pieces, pierce, prune, pry loose from, pull in pieces,
      pull to pieces, pulverize, puncture, reduce to rubble, rend from,
      rip, rip from, rive, run, rupture, savage, saw, scald, scissor,
      scorch, scotch, scrape, scratch, screw, scuff, separate, sever,
      shake down, shatter, shred, skin, slash, slice, slit, smash, smite,
      snatch from, snip, split, sprain, squeeze, stab, stick, strain,
      sunder, take apart, tear, tear apart, tear from, tear to pieces,
      tear to shreds, tear to tatters, torment, total, traumatize,
      unbuild, undo, unmake, whittle, wound, wrack up, wreck, wrench,
      wrench from, wrest, wring, wring from