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单词 rend
释义 rend
\ˈrend\ verb
(rent \-nt\ ; also rended ; rent also rended ; rending ; rends)
Etymology: Middle English renden, from Old English rendan; akin to Old Frisian renda to tear, rend, Sanskrit randhra split, opening, hole
transitive verb
1. : to pull violently from a person or thing : remove from place by violence : tear out or away : wrench, wrest
 < glaciers may … rend boulders from their beds — G.W.Tyrrell >
 < rend manhood out of him in fear — G.D.Brown >
2.
 a. : to split or tear apart or in pieces by violence : cleave
  < saw lightning rend a tree >
  : dismember
  < many a carcass they left … for the horny-nibbed raven to rend — Alfred Tennyson >
 b. : to convert straight-grained wood into (laths) by splitting
3. : to tear (the hair or clothing) as a sign of anger, grief, or despair
 < foam, fling myself flat, rend my clothes to shreds — Robert Browning >
4. : to affect as if tearing or splitting: as
 a. : to lacerate (as the heart) with painful feelings
  < look in his face … and rend him with her scorn — Ellen Glasgow >
 b. : to pierce with sound
  < suddenly this dead stillness was rent by a shot — Zane Grey >
 c. : to divide (as a nation) into parties : disintegrate
  < a long dispute over where it should be built rent the community — American Guide Series: Virginia >
intransitive verb
1. : to perform an act of tearing or splitting
 < a time to rend and a time to sew — Eccles 3:7 (Revised Standard Version) >
2. : to become torn or split
 < made of rotten black cloth … or else it would not have rent — Edmund Hickeringill >
Synonyms: see tear
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