rend

Meaning

Verb

1. To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to split; to burst
2. To part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force; to amputate.
3. To be rent or torn; to become parted; to separate; to split.

Noun

A violent separation of parts.

Concepts

rend

tear

split

rip

cleave

crack

break

slit

divide

rive

lacerate

slash

splinter

shred

pierce

tear apart

cut

hew

cause to burst

pull

sever

chop

lop

snap

rupture

break asunder

mow

pull to pieces

sunder

cut asunder

be cleft

become fissured

chap

crack asunder

abstract

fist

skive

sliver

slot

cracking

dehiscence

effracture

fissuration

open

rifting

splitting

splitting up

wedging

knock down

peel off

pry

tear off

denigrate

be torn

pluck up

pull off

scrape

scratch

tear to pieces

mangle

split open

ear-splitting

shake

shock

vibrate

vibration

shear

tear up

separate

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹɛnd/

Etymology

From Middle English renden, from Old English rendan (“to rend, tear, cut, lacerate, cut down”), from Proto-West Germanic *(h)randijan (“to tear”), of uncertain origin. Believed by some to be the causative of Proto-Germanic *hrindaną (“to push”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱret-, *kret- (“to hit, beat”), which would make it related to Old English hrindan (“to thrust, push”). Cognate with Scots rent (“to rend, tear”), Old Frisian renda (“to tear”).