verb · irregular · transitive · rare

rend

rend · rends · rent / rended · rending

раздирать, разрывать, отрывать

zerreißen, zerspalten, spalten

To separate into parts with force or sudden violenceTo separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to split; to burst.

/ɹɛnd/

» But where was he to go, in order to escape the relentless monster that sought to rend him?

Meaning

4 senses

(transitive)To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to split; to burst.
Powder rends a rock in blasting.
Lightning rends an oak.
zerreißen, zerspalten, spalten
раздира́тьrazdirátʹ, разрыва́тьrazryvátʹ
(figuratively, transitive)To violently disturb the peace of; to throw into chaos.
a scream that rent the air
(transitive)To part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force; to amputate.
отрыва́тьotryvátʹ
(intransitive)To be rent or torn; to become parted; to separate; to split.
Relationships may rend if tempers flare.

More definitions

tear or be torn violently

Examples

1 sentences

But where was he to go, in order to escape the relentless monster that sought to rend him?
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Translations

6 languages

Русский

By meaning 2

to separate into parts with force:

to part or tear off forcibly:

Deutsch

By meaning 1

to separate into parts with force:

Origin

From Middle English renden, from Old English rendan (“to rend, tear, cut, lacerate, cut do

From Middle English renden, from Old English rendan (“to rend, tear, cut, lacerate, cut down”), from Proto-West Germanic *(h)randijan (“to tear”), of uncertain origin. Believed by some to be the causative of Proto-Germanic *hrindaną (“to push”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱret-, *kret- (“to hit, beat”), which would make it related to Old English hrindan (“to thrust, push”). Cognate with Scots rent (“to rend, tear”), Old Frisian renda (“to tear”).

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