REND (rent)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: rent   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does rend mean? 

• REND (verb)
  The verb REND has 1 sense:

1. tear or be torn violently

  Familiarity information: REND used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REND (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they rend    ... he / she / it rends   
Past simple: rent   
Past participle: rent   
-ing form: rending   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tear or be torn violently

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

pull; rend; rip; rive

Context example:

pull the cooked chicken into strips

Hypernyms (to "rend" is one way to...):

bust; rupture; snap; tear (separate or cause to separate abruptly)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

If I rent the dear old house, and keep a school, I shall be useful and happy.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He was up with his type-writer rent, but he estimated that he could get two months' credit on that, which would be eight dollars.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The night—its silence—its rest, was rent in twain by a savage, a sharp, a shrilly sound that ran from end to end of Thornfield Hall.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

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(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

This was corroborated by his landlord, who had received by messenger the key of the house together with the rent due, in English money.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

We had turned away from the edge, and had penetrated about fifty yards of close brushwood, when there came a frightful rending crash from behind us.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"The Crofts have arrived in Bath? The Crofts who rent Kellynch? What have they brought you?"

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

“You’ll need to rent this field before you can beat him, for he’ll stand a month of that kind of fly-flappin’.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The agent was obliged to me for my warning, but told me that the rent had been paid in advance.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

‘Do you consider,’ said his companion to him, ‘that you will be obliged to pay three months’ rent and to lose the produce of your garden?

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)