Usually means: Tear something into pieces violently.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word rend:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. rend: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rend: Merriam-Webster
  3. rend: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. rend: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. rend: Collins English Dictionary
  6. rend: Vocabulary.com
  7. Rend, rend: Wordnik
  8. rend: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. rend: Wiktionary
  10. rend: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. rend: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. rend: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Rend, rend: Dictionary.com
  14. rend: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. rend: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Rend: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Rend: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. rend: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. rend: Rhymezone
  20. rend: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. rend: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. rend: FreeDictionary.org
  23. rend: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. rend: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. rend: Legal dictionary
  2. rend: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rend: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rend: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. REND: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. rend: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rend: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See rended as well.)

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ verb:  (transitive) To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to split; to burst
▸ verb:  (transitive, figurative) To violently disturb the peace of; to throw into chaos.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force; to amputate.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To be rent or torn; to become parted; to separate; to split.
▸ noun:  A violent separation of parts.

Similar:
pull, rip, rive, rift, break, split, fragment, forburst, explode, berend, more...

Phrases:
to rend, to rap and rend, rend garments, rend hair, rend the air, more...

Adjectives:
indignant, frangois, compt, welkin, compte, hot, lincei, iterator, compl, ready, comp

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Similar:
pull, rip, rive, rift, break, split, fragment, forburst, explode, berend, more...

Phrases:
to rend, to rap and rend, rend garments, rend hair, rend the air, Rend Collective, rend apart, something that cant be rend, more...

Adjectives:
indignant, frangois, compt, welkin, compte, hot, lincei, iterator, compl, ready, comp

Colors:
    crimson,     scarlet,     burgundy,     maroon,     ruby, more...



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