Rend

English

Verb

Rend (third-person singular simple present rends, present participle rending, simple past and past participle rent)

1. (transitive) To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to tear asunder; to split; to burst

   Powder rends a rock in blasting.

   Lightning rends an oak.

   • 1970, Alvin Toffler, Future Shock, Bantam Books, pg. 317:

     We are most vulnerable now to the messages of the new subcults, to the claims and counterclaims that rend the air.

2. (transitive) To part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force.
3. (intransitive) To be rent or torn; to become parted; to separate; to split.

   Relationships may rend if tempers flare.

   Rending of garments for shiva is a Jewish tradition.

Thesaurus

abrade, afflict, amputate, atomize, ax, badger, bark, bisect, blackmail, blemish, bloody, break, break to pieces, burn, butcher, carve, chafe, check, chip, chop, claim, claw, cleave, crack, craze, cut, cut away, cut in two, cut off, demand, demolish, dichotomize, disassemble, disintegrate, dismantle, dissever, distress, divide, exact, excise, extort, fissure, force from, fracture, fragment, fray, frazzle, fret, gall, gash, hack, halve, hew, hurt, incise, injure, jigsaw, lacerate, lance, levy blackmail, maim, make mincemeat of, mangle, maul, mutilate, pain, pare, pick to pieces, pierce, prune, pry loose from, pull in pieces, pull to pieces, pulverize, puncture, reduce to rubble, rend from, rip, rip from, rive, run, rupture, savage, saw, scald, scissor, scorch, scotch, scrape, scratch, screw, scuff, separate, sever, shake down, shatter, shred, skin, slash, slice, slit, smash, smite, snatch from, snip, split, sprain, squeeze, stab, stick, strain, sunder, take apart, tear, tear apart, tear from, tear to pieces, tear to shreds, tear to tatters, torment, total, traumatize, unbuild, undo, unmake, whittle, wound, wrack up, wreck, wrench, wrench from, wrest, wring, wring from

Etymology

Confer the Old Norse hrinda (“to push, to thrust”) whence the Icelandic hrinda (“to push”) or ræna (“to plunder, to rob”) whence the Danish rane and Icelandic ræna (“to rob, to pillage”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛnd

Translations

to separate into parts with force

Latin: lacerō (la)

to part or tear off forcibly

to be rent or torn

Anagrams

• nerd

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Danish

Verb

Rend

1. imperative of rende

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French

Verb

Rend

1. third-person singular present indicative of rendre

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ʁɑ̃/, SAMPA: /RA~/

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Hungarian

Noun

Rend (plural Rendek)

1. order

Etymology

From a Slavic language, compare Serbo-Croatian red.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈrɛnd/

Declension

declension of Rend singular plural nominative Rend rendek accusative rendet rendeket dative rendnek rendeknek instrumental renddel rendekkel causal-final rendért rendekért translative renddé rendekké terminative rendig rendekig essive-formal rendként rendekként essive-modal - - inessive rendben rendekben superessive renden rendeken adessive rendnél rendeknél illative rendbe rendekbe sublative rendre rendekre allative rendhez rendekhez elative rendből rendekből delative rendről rendekről ablative rendtől rendektől

possessives of Rend possessor singular possession plural possession 1st person sing. rendem rendjeim 2nd person sing. rended rendjeid 3rd person sing. rendje rendjei 1st person plural rendünk rendjeink 2nd person plural rendetek rendjeitek 3rd person plural rendjük rendjeik

Derived terms

• rendel
• rendes
• rendetlen
• rendez

Compound words

házirend időrend menetrend

oszloprend rendellenes rendkívül

rendőr rendszer sorrend

szerzetesrend

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