Synonyms for rend
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1. rend

   Rend and tear are applied to the separating of textile substances into parts by force violently applied (rend also to frangible substances), tear being the milder, rend the stronger word. Rive is a wood-workers' word for parting wood in the way of the grain without a clean cut. To lacerate is to tear roughly the flesh or animal tissue, as by the teeth of a wild beast; a lacerated wound is distinguished from a wound made by a clean cut or incision. Mangle is a stronger word than lacerate; lacerate is more superficial, mangle more complete. To burst or rupture is to tear or rend by force from within, burst denoting the greater violence; as, to burst a gun; to rupture a blood-vessel; a steam-boiler may be ruptured when its substance is made to divide by internal pressure without explosion. To rip, as usually applied to garments or other articles made by sewing or stitching, is to divide along the line of a seam by cutting or breaking the stitches; the other senses bear some resemblance or analogy to this; as, to rip open a wound. Compare BREAK.

   Synonyms:
   break, burst, cleave, lacerate, mangle, rip, rive, rupture, sever, slit, sunder, tear

   Antonyms:
   heal, join, mend, reunite, secure, sew, solder, stitch, unite, weld

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1. rend

   Synonyms:
   tear, lacerate, divide, separate, split, disintegrate, disunite, rive, tear asunder

   Antonyms:
   repair, place, patch, conserve, unite, perpetuate, continuate

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1. rend, rip, rive, pullverb

   tear or be torn violently

   "The curtain ripped from top to bottom"; "pull the cooked chicken into strips"

   Synonyms:
   pull up, overstretch, extract, root for, cleave, force, draw out, rip, deplumate, get out, pluck, draw, displume, pull in, tear, pull, perpetrate, split, deplume, pull out, rive, commit, attract, take out, draw in

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1. • Tear

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1. rendverb

   Synonyms:
   break, sever, dissever, rive, shiver, cleave, split, crack, snap, burst, fracture, lacerate, dilacerate, tear, tear asunder, break asunder

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1. rendverb

   Synonyms:
   tear, rive, lacerate, cleave, sunder

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1. William James:

   I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big success. I am for those tiny, invisible loving human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capilillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man's pride.