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# rend

«rend» in Mova's school dictionary: **To tear something into pieces violently** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (rend, rends, rent, rending)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (old or literary) To tear something into pieces violently. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rend/#m1)

2) To break a silence or the air with a loud sound. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rend/#m2)

3) (literary) To cause great sadness or pain to someone's heart. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rend/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Mostly found in old stories, poems, the Bible and fantasy books. In the Bible people «rent their clothes», tearing them to show great sorrow. «Heart-rending» means very sad. Phrases: «rend apart», «rend the air», «heart-rending», «rent their clothes».

### examples

- The giant rent the tree in two. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rend/#x1)
- A scream rent the silence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rend/#x2)
- In the Bible, Jacob rent his clothes when he heard the bad news. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rend/#x3)
- It was a heart-rending story about a lost puppy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rend/#x4)
- The storm threatened to rend the sails. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rend/#x5)
- The war rent the country apart. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rend/#x6)
- Wringing his hands and rending his beard, he exclaimed: [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rend/#x7)

### note

Irregular verb: rend, rent, rent. Trap: «rent» is also the money paid to live in a house — a different word. Today «tear» is used instead of «rend»; «heart-rending» is still common.

### In the corpora

- [And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the skirt of his robe, and it rent.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.411/)
- [Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent them; and likewise all the men that were with him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.13/)
- [And Ahijah laid hold of the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.438/)
- [Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried: 'Treason, treason.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.355/)
- [Oh, that Thou wouldest rend the heavens, that Thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might quake at Thy presence,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1364/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «rend» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rend/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.