- 1(literary) to tear something apart with force or violence They rent their clothes in grief.
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- 2(figurative) a country rent in two by civil war
- 3(figurative) Loud screams rent the air. see heart-rending
rend
verbNAmE//rɛnd//
rend something (old use or )Verb Forms present simple I / you / we / they rend he / she / it rends
past simple rent
-ing form rending
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