rends
Pulls forcibly apart
Rends is the present tense of rend, meaning to tear apart violently or split asunder.
The word is literary and dramatic: A scream rends the silence, Grief rends her heart.
You're more likely to encounter rends in poetry or elevated prose than everyday speech.
The past tense is rent, not rended.
Violent tearing apart
- fractureSplit in hard material
- breachBreaking of agreement
- crackNarrow break or attempt
- shatterFragment violently, suddenly
splinter · burst · snap · fragment · cleave · sunder · break apart · disintegrate
Formal organizational fracture
- riftCrack or estrangement
- factionGroup within group
- discordLack of agreement
- estrangementEmotional separation between people
alienation · division · disunity · polarization · fracture · rupture · split · breach
rupture
Violent tearing apart
shatter · splinter · burst · snap · fragment · cleave · sunder · break apart · disintegrate · crush
tear
To pull apart
lacerate · mangle · gash · slash · claw · pull apart · yank · wrench · fray · unravel
schism
Formal organizational fracture
estrangement · alienation · division · disunity · polarization · fracture · rupture · split · breach · separation
divide
Separate into parts
cleave · split · carve · slice · halve · sever · separate · part · dissect · cut
heartbreak
Crushing emotional pain
devastate · pierce · wound · sting · gut · shatter · wrench · pain · agony · sorrow
- for rentAvailable for lease
- rent outLet for payment
- pay the rentFulfill housing payment duty
- pay rent
- rent moneyFunds owed for lodging
- for rent sign
rent, render, rendering, rendered, rend, renders, rending, renderer