REND


Meaning of REND in English

/ rend; NAmE / verb

( rent , rent / rent; NAmE /) [ vn ] ( old use or literary ) to tear sth apart with force or violence :

They rent their clothes in grief.

( figurative )

a country rent in two by civil war

( figurative )

Loud screams rent the air.

—see also heart-rending

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WORD ORIGIN

Old English rendan ; related to Middle Low German rende .

Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь для изучающик язык на продвинутом уровне.