Word Finder - rending

definition

To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to split; to burst

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Lightning rends an oak.

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To part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force; to amputate.

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To be rent or torn; to become parted; to separate; to split.

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Relationships may rend if tempers flare.

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The act by which something is rent, or torn.

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rendings of garments

What sounded like a gunshot blast rending the night air.

It was accompanied by a tortured screech of rending metal, which echoed around the hanger, giving agonized voice to those faces.

The scenes at the pit 's mouth during the long attempt to clear the shaft were most heart rending.

This resulted in rending the colony into two irreconcilable factions, and in October 1856 Cabet with the minority (172) withdrew to St Louis, Mo., where he died on the 8th of November.

They ran from all parts of the Gardens, and formed a solid mass of an immense extent, rending the air with acclamations.

The scenes at the pit's mouth during the long attempt to clear the shaft were most heart rending.

The Maori story, told by Grey and others, of the rending apart of Rangi (= Langi, heaven) 5 See Schoolcraft, Myth of Hiawatha (1856), pp. 35-39; and cf.

But drawing from his aged wisdom what they could understand, he told them of the golden bridge, and they laughed at and slandered him, flinging themselves on, rending and exulting over the dying beast.

Now at the rending of the veil we are invited to draw near.

Or, more likely, wailing and rending of garments.

The arrangement is, in fact, a modification of the plug and feather system used in stone quarrying for obtaining large blocks, but with the substitution of the powerful rending force of the hydraulic press for handpower in driving up the wedges.

It is remarkably tough, resisting a rending strain better than any of the fir or pine woods in common use, though not as elastic as some; properly seasoned, it is as little liable to shrink as to split; the boughs being small compared to the trunk, the timber is more free from large knots, and the small knots remain firm and undecayed.

He set to work to restore some of these ruins, to reconstitute and pacify the Papal State, to put an end to the Schism, which showed signs of continuing in Aragon and certain parts of southern France; to enter into negotiations, unfortunately unfruitful, with the Greek Church also with a view to a return to unity, to organize the struggle against heresy in Bohemia; to interpose his pacific mediation between France and England, as well as between the parties which were rending France; and, finally, to welcome and act as patron to saintly reformers like Bernardino of Siena and Francesca Romana, foundress of the nursing sisterhood of the Oblate di Tor de' Specchi (1425).