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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
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
Rap
,
Verb.
T.
, to snatch.
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.
pret. and pp. rent. [Eng. cranny, L. crena, Gr.]
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

Rend

See also: rend

Central Franconian

Alternative forms

  • Renk (native in most of Ripuarian, now chiefly western dialects)
  • Rond, Rönd (Eifel)

Noun

Rend n (plural Renner or Render, diminutive Rendche)

  1. (most of Moselle Franconian, parts of Ripuarian) cow; bull; (head of) cattle

rend

rend

See also: Rend

English

Verb

rend (third-person singular simple present rends, present participle rending, simple past and past participle rent or rended)

  1. (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.
  2. (transitive) To part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force.
  3. (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

Noun

rend (plural rends)

  1. 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.

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

  1. 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)

  1. to run, hurry

References

  1. Orel, Vladimir (1998), rend”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, page 386

Danish

Verb

rend

  1. imperative of rende

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁɑ̃/

Verb

rend

  1. third-person singular present indicative of rendre

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)

  1. order

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

Derived terms