Rend

Verb

 * 1)  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.
 * 1) * 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.
 * 1)  To part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force.
 * 2)  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: whence the Icelandic hrinda: or ræna: whence the Danish rane: and Icelandic ræna:.

Translations

 * Latin:

Anagrams

 * nerd

Noun

 * 1) order

Etymology
From a language, compare  red:.

Derived terms

 * rendel
 * rendes
 * rendetlen
 * rendez
 * Compound words


 * házirend
 * időrend
 * menetrend


 * oszloprend
 * rendellenes
 * rendkívül


 * rendőr
 * rendszer
 * sorrend


 * szerzetesrend