rending
Ripping something apart
Rending is the present participle of rend, meaning to tear apart violently or with force.
The word appears most often in literary or dramatic contexts: a rending scream, the rending of fabric.
Something rending tears at you emotionally as well as physically—a heart-rending sight causes anguish, as if the heart itself were being torn.
Formal organizational fracture
- riftCrack or estrangement
- splitSeparation into parts
- fractureSplit in hard material
- fissureNarrow crack in rock
cleavage · breach · rupture · severance · partition · sundering · disunion · estrangement
Crushing emotional pain
- anguishIntense mental suffering
- griefIntense sorrow from loss
- agonyExtreme physical or emotional pain
- tormentSevere prolonged suffering
sorrow · despair · woe · lamentation · suffering · distress · bereavement · heartrending
Act of completely ruining
- havocWidespread destruction and chaos
- ravageCause severe destruction
- devastationSevere widespread destruction
- furyIntense violent anger
force · shattering · smashing · maiming · mutilation · savagery · ferocity · brutality
rip
Tear apart forcibly
fray · tatter · gash · slash · split · cleave · sunder · incise · pierce · slit
schism
Formal organizational fracture
fissure · cleavage · breach · rupture · severance · partition · sundering · disunion · estrangement · divorce
heartbreak
Crushing emotional pain
torment · sorrow · despair · woe · lamentation · suffering · distress · bereavement · heartrending · gut-wrenching
destruction
Act of completely ruining
- havocWidespread destruction and chaos
- ravageCause severe destruction
- devastationSevere widespread destruction
fury · force · shattering · smashing · maiming · mutilation · savagery · ferocity · brutality · upheaval
- lamentslamentation, wailing, keen, keening, lament
- Jewish mourningshiva, shivah, yahrzeit, sitting shiva, mourning
- breakingbreaking, cracking, fracturing, rupturing, shattering
- fabric damageripping, shredding, fraying, unraveling, tattering
rendingeuphonious
Pleasing to hear
melodious · harmonious · dulcet · soothing · mellifluous
rendingcomforting
Giving emotional ease
healing · soothing · heartwarming · consoling · uplifting
rent, render, rendering, rendered, rend, renders, rends, renderer, unrendered