rended
Ripped apart forcefully
Rended is a past tense of rend, meaning to tear apart violently: The explosion rended the hull.
The standard past tense is rent, but rended appears in speech and writing, particularly when the more archaic rent might sound affected or unclear: Grief rended her heart.
Both forms are correct.
Pulled into pieces
- rippedTorn or very muscular
- shreddedTorn into strips
- tatteredRipped and worn out
- laceratedTorn with irregular edges
frayed · jagged · gashed · split · cleaved · severed · ruptured · mangled
torn
Pulled into pieces
lacerated · frayed · jagged · gashed · split · cleaved · severed · ruptured · mangled · ragged
sundered
Violently split apart
split · cleaved · bisected · disjoined · detached · disunited · fractured · schism · asunder · broken
wrenched
Twisted suddenly, painfully
savagely · violently · fury · anguish · torment · grief · agonized · devastated · shattered · pierced
- 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
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