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Rent Rend Verb Women Clothes Grief Country Civil

Word3 rend
WordType (verb)
Phonetic /rend/ /rend/
Example
  • the women rend their clothes in grief.
  • a country rent in two by civil war
  • the community has been rent asunder by the scandal.
  • loud screams rent the air.
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rend

(verb)/rend/ /rend/

    Verb Forms

  1. to tear something apart with force or violence
    • SEE ALSO heart-rending
      https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/heart-rending
    • The women rend their clothes in grief.
    • a country rent in two by civil war
    • The community has been rent asunder by the scandal.
    • Loud screams rent the air.

    Word Origin

    • Old English rendan; related to Middle Low German rende.
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