rend

IPA: rɛnd

(transitive) To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to split; to burst
(transitive) To part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force; to amputate.
(intransitive) To be rent or torn; to become parted; to separate; to split.

Examples of "rend" in Sentences

Le plus important, faites simplement cela qui vous rend heureux, savor les moments entourés votre cher famille.
We fear the knife of the slasher and the claws of the beast because they threaten to rend us, to tear our precious selves to piece.
I thought they were extinct .... beware the left loons of your party, they will turn and rend you like the wild beasts they are!!!!
But let us not believe that the bad old days are so far behind us that racially driven violence could not once again rend our social fabric.
We all need to honor Senator Kennedy by using our utterances and actions to mend an America which some would rather see rend asunder. center left
I wanted to beat back at him, smash flesh and bone'tear" rend" Perhaps the physical weakness left from our long ride was our salvation at that moment.
Worries about Greek's debt crisis have roiled the oil market for months because of fears that it could rend apart the euro zone, thus damaging the broader global economy, curbing demand for crude oil and squelching investors' appetite for such risky assets as commodities.
In this passage, Oothoon's rhetoric of purity and defilement reveals her unwitting capitulation to Theotormon's ascetic dualism (which opposes chastity to harlotry), while her use of the verb "rend" in her instruction to Theotormon's eagles implies, most appallingly, an invited repetition of Bromion's act of rape.