verb (used with object), rent, rend·ing.
verb (used without object), rent, rend·ing.
Origin of rend
Synonyms for rend
Examples from the Web for rend
Contemporary Examples of rend
Yet many zombies exist in an advanced state of decomposition, and lack the strength to rend and devour for themselves.How Can Canada Deal with the Zombie Threat?
February 16, 2013
Historical Examples of rend
They are the great problem of mankind; they rend the heart with pity.
They rend the heart with pity all the more for the reason that there is no sense in their poverty.
There's that in his heart which can tear and rend; and there's that which can build.Dust
Mr. and Mrs. Haldeman-Julius
Then would the voice especially claim us for its prey, and rend us all to pieces.The Uncommercial Traveller
The world is quick to turn and rend with ridicule a false prophet.
verb rends, rending or rent
Word Origin for rend
Old English rendan, hrendan "to tear, cut down," from West Germanic *randijanan (cf. Old Frisian renda "to cut, break," Middle Low German rende "anything broken," German Rinde "bark, crust"), probably related to rind. Related: Rended; rent; rending.