Definitions for rend

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IPA: /rɛnd/

Rend is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 32 anagrams from letters in rend (denr).

Definitions for rend

verb (used with object)

1. to separate into parts with force or violence:
2. to tear apart, split, or divide:
3. to pull or tear violently (often followed by away, off, up, etc.).
4. to tear (one's garments or hair) in grief, rage, etc.
5. to disturb (the air) sharply with loud noise.
6. to harrow or distress (the heart) with painful feelings.

verb (used without object)

1. to split or tear something.
2. to become torn or split.

Origin of rend

before 950; Middle English renden, Old English rendan; cognate with Old Frisian renda

Examples for rend

I would talk of what was troubling me, and not try to rend my heart in pieces.

They bear our name; how could he understand the divisions that rend us asunder?

Unable to rend the tough fabric, it resorted to another method.

Then would the voice especially claim us for its prey, and rend us all to pieces.

They rend the heart with pity all the more for the reason that there is no sense in their poverty.

They are the great problem of mankind; they rend the heart with pity.

There's that in his heart which can tear and rend; and there's that which can build.

There is nothing we cherish and strive to draw to us but in some hour we turn and rend it.

Yet many zombies exist in an advanced state of decomposition, and lack the strength to rend and devour for themselves.

The world is quick to turn and rend with ridicule a false prophet.