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English

Etymology

From Middle English renden, from Old English rendan (“to rend, tear, cut, lacerate, cut down”), from Proto-Germanic *hrandijan? (“to tear”), of uncertain origin. Believed by some to be the causative of Proto-Germanic *hrindan? (“to push”), from Proto-Indo-European *?ret-, *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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??nd/
• Rhymes: -?nd

Verb

rend (third-person singular simple present rends, present participle rending, simple past and past participle rent or rended)

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

   Powder rends a rock in blasting.

   Lightning rends an oak.

   • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 1 scene 2

     If thou more murmur'st, I will rend an oak / And peg thee in his knotty entrails till / Thou hast howl'd away twelve winters.

   • 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; to amputate.
   • 1611, King James Version, Job 1:12:

     And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.
3. (intransitive) To be rent or torn; to become parted; to separate; to split.

   Relationships may rend if tempers flare.

Derived terms

• berend
• torend

Translations

Noun

rend (plural rends)

1. A violent separation of parts.
   • 2002, John S. Anderson, A Daughter of Light (page xvi)

     She'd been in a couple of minor car accidents herself, and witnessed a few others, and the rend of metal was unforgettable.

Anagrams

• NERD, dern, nerd

Albanian

Etymology 1

An early loanword from a South Slavic language, from Proto-Slavic *r?d? (“row, line”) with a preserved nasal. Compare Old Church Slavonic ???? (r?d?, “line, order”), Serbo-Croatian red (“row”), Bulgarian ??? (red, “row”), and West Slavic descendant Polish rz?d (“row”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??nd/

Noun

rend m (indefinite plural rende, definite singular rendi, definite plural rendet)

1. row, order, line
2. turn
3. class, category

Declension

Synonyms

• radhë
• rresht

Derived terms

• rendit
• renditje

Etymology 2

From Proto-Albanian *renta, from *rena, akin to Gothic ???????????????????????? (rinnan) and Old Norse rinna (“to run”).

Verb

rend (first-person singular past tense renda, participle rendur)

1. to run (after), hurry (after)

   Synonym: gjëmoj

References

Danish

Verb

rend

1. imperative of rende

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???/

Verb

rend

1. third-person singular present indicative of rendre

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from a Slavic language. Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *r?d?. Compare Serbo-Croatian r?d.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?r?nd]
• Hyphenation: rend
• Rhymes: -?nd

Noun

rend (plural rendek)

1. order

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• rend in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

English

Etymology

From Middle English torenden; equivalent to to- +? rend.

Verb

torend (third-person singular simple present torends, present participle torending, simple past and past participle torent)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To tear apart, rend to pieces; tear up.

See also

• berend

Anagrams

• dentro, dronte, rodent