rend
Tear with force
Rend means to tear apart violently or forcefully.
The word is literary and somewhat archaic, appearing more often in dramatic or biblical contexts than everyday speech: a cry that rent the air, garments rent in grief.
To rend can also mean to cause emotional anguish: The news rent her heart.
Past tense: rent.
Cut apart completely
- sunderForcibly divide apart
- divideSeparate into parts
- partitionBarrier separating spaces
- detachTo separate from
disjoin · disunite · dismember · dissect · wrench · pull apart · pry · extract
Crushing emotional pain
- anguishIntense mental suffering
- griefIntense sorrow from loss
- tormentSevere prolonged suffering
- sorrowDeep emotional distress
despair · devastate · shatter · wound · pierce · wrenching · gut-wrenching · heartrending
rip
Tear apart forcibly
gash · slit · slash · fray · cleave · rive · split · rupture · perforate · pierce
sever
Cut apart completely
detach · disjoin · disunite · dismember · dissect · wrench · pull apart · pry · extract · uproot
heartbreak
Crushing emotional pain
sorrow · despair · devastate · shatter · wound · pierce · wrenching · gut-wrenching · heartrending · harrowing
forceful
Exerting strong pressure
ferocious · violent · vicious · powerful · mighty · furious · wrathful · destructive · ravage · devastate
piercing
Penetrating or very sharp
cry · howl · screech · shrill · ear-splitting · cacophony · clamor · din
- render unto CaesarGive what's owed to authority
- rendered fatFat melted from tissue
- 3D renderingComputing lifelike images from models
- artist's rendering
- 3D renderComputer-generated dimensional image
- architectural renderingArtistic depiction of proposed building
render, rendering, rendered, renders, rending, rends, rended