Meaning & use
rend
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To tear or rip apart forcefully.
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The storm's winds were strong enough to rend the old tent to shreds.
Grief seemed to rend her heart in two.
A note on using this word
A literary, somewhat archaic verb; its past tense is 'rent,' as in 'her dress was rent by the barbed wire.'
Words with a similar meaning
tearrip
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Words with an opposite meaning
mend
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