render

¹ American  

[ren-der] / ˈrɛn dər /

verb (used with object)

• renders,
  present (3rd person singular)
• rendered,
  past participle,  past
• rendering
  present participle

1. to cause to be or become; make.

   to render someone helpless.

2. to do; perform.

   to render a service.

3. to furnish; provide.

   to render aid.

   Synonyms:

   afford, contribute, supply, give

4. to exhibit or show (obedience, attention, etc.).

   Synonyms:

   demonstrate

5. to present for consideration, approval, payment, action, etc., as an account.

6. to return; to make (a payment in money, kind, or service) as by a tenant to a superior.

   knights rendering military service to the lord.

7. to pay as due (a tax, tribute, etc.).

8. to deliver formally or officially; hand down.

   to render a verdict.

9. to translate into another language.

   to render French poems into English.

10. to represent; depict, as in painting.

    to render a landscape.

11. to represent (a perspective view of a projected building) in drawing or painting.

12. to bring out the meaning of by performance or execution; interpret, as a part in a drama or a piece of music.

13. Digital Technology.

    1. to use the processing power of computer hardware and software to synthesize (the components of an image or animation) in a final graphic output.

       I’m able to render the lighting in this scene much faster now, thanks to my new graphics card.

    2. to load (game assets) in a video game, displaying objects, textures, geometry, lighting, etc., on screen in their complete intended form: The game is still playable even if the textures in the environment aren’t always rendered right.

       My laggy connection didn’t render the enemies until I was basically standing on top of them.

       The game is still playable even if the textures in the environment aren’t always rendered right.

14. to give in return or requital.

    to render good for evil.

15. to give back; restore (often followed byback ).

16. to send (a suspected criminal) abroad; subject to rendition.

17. to give up; surrender.

    Synonyms:

    yield, cede

18. Building Trades. to cover (masonry) with a first coat of plaster.

19. to melt down; extract the impurities from by melting.

    to render fat.

20. to process, as for industrial use.

    to render livestock carcasses.

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verb (used without object)

• renders,
  present (3rd person singular)
• rendered,
  past participle,  past
• rendering
  present participle

1. to provide due reward.

2. to separate oil from fat, blubber, etc., by melting.

3. Digital Technology. (of assets in a video game) to load so they are visible to the player in their complete intended form.

   There is a long delay before the geometry renders when I change zones, so sometimes I find my character walking in place up against a wall when the world finally loads.

noun

1. Building Trades. a first coat of plaster for a masonry surface.

render ² American  

[ren-der] / ˈrɛn dər /

noun

1. a person or thing that rends or tears something apart forcefully or violently.

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render British  

/ ˈrɛndə /

verb

1. to present or submit (accounts, etc) for payment, approval, or action

2. to give or provide (aid, charity, a service, etc)

3. to show (obedience), as due or expected

4. to give or exchange, as by way of return or requital

   to render blow for blow

5. to cause to become

   grief had rendered him simple-minded

6. to deliver (a verdict or opinion) formally

7. to portray or depict (something), as in painting, music, or acting

8. computing to use colour and shading to make a digital image look three-dimensional and solid

9. to translate (something) into another language or form

10. (sometimes foll by up) to yield or give

    the tomb rendered up its secret

11. (often foll by back) to return (something); give back

12. to cover the surface of (brickwork, stone, etc) with a coat of plaster

13. (often foll by down) to extract (fat) from (meat) by melting

14. nautical

    1. to reeve (a line)

    2. to slacken (a rope, etc)

15. history (of a feudal tenant) to make (payment) in money, goods, or services to one's overlord

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noun

1. a first thin coat of plaster applied to a surface

2. history a payment in money, goods, or services made by a feudal tenant to his lord

Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• renderer
  noun
• renderable
  adjective
• unrenderable
  adjective

Inflected Forms

Participles

• rendering
  present
• rendered
  past

Conjugated Forms

Present

• render
  simple
• renders
  simple
• have rendered
  perfect
• has rendered
  perfect
• am rendering
  progressive
• are rendering
  progressive
• is rendering
  progressive
• have been rendering
  perfect progressive
• has been rendering
  perfect progressive

Past

• rendered
  simple
• had rendered
  perfect
• was rendering
  progressive
• were rendering
  progressive
• had been rendering
  perfect progressive

Future

• will render
  simple
• will have rendered
  perfect
• will be rendering
  progressive
• will have been rendering
  perfect progressive

Etymology

Origin of render¹

First recorded in 1275–1325; Middle English rendren, from Middle French rendre, from unattested Vulgar Latin rendere, alteration (formed by analogy with prendere “to take”) of Latin reddere “to give back,” equivalent to red- prefix meaning “again” or “again and again” + -dere, combining form of dare “to give”; see red-

Origin of render²

First recorded in 1580–90; rend + -er ¹

Explanation

Render is a synonym of "make" — technically it means "cause to become." An illness might render you unable to walk, or a shocking sight might render you speechless. Another basic meaning of the verb render is to give, present, or perform something: you could render assistance to someone in need, for example. And a specialized sense is to formally declare a verdict in a court case. Render derives from the Latin verb reddere, "to restore," from the prefix re-, "back," plus dare, "to give."

Example Sentences

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render renders rendered rendering

Four minutes later, Cameron Hanekom scooped up scrappy ball to put the result beyond doubt and render replacement Beauden Barrett's late try only a footnote.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

In a 1998 artistic statement, she explained her artistic goal was to “create photographic images that compassionately render the human experience.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

The endeavor, worth $1.4 billion, would render many acres of Albania’s coastline unrecognizable.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

Their job is to apply the law to the facts of the case and render judgment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

Being constantly on guard after a sleepless night was a good way to render one’s muscles stiff and clumsy, and that was the way Kaede felt when the wolves finally moved in.

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo

The lack of conflict that might have been created on a conventional news channel renders his impromptu network interminably boring.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

Concept renders published by news outlets like MacRumors offer a preview of what the new phones might look like.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 7, 2026

It is these same industrial-scale development projects that have been largely responsible for draining the area's peat swamps, which renders them significantly more fire-prone, Prof Page says.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026

By removing the usual scaffolding that renders human life intelligible, above all custom and language, the books ask what lies beneath.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

Such an approach inevitably renders the Scientific Revolution totally invisible.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

He saw that three-dimensional experience was going to be rendered in two dimensions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

For example, when the VSC gifted Lewis Hamilton the lead in Barcelona, even if that was rendered moot by Antonelli's subsequent retirement.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

His home being Hollywood—specifically a somewhat dank apartment, rendered in depressing detail by set designer François-Pierre Couture—Mr. Guimarães encounters qualities that are endemic to the place: for instance career envy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Weightier than any of that is the ever-more involuted mystery enveloping the real Elizabeth Short, whose murder has inspired fictionalized homages before De Palma’s movie and since, but has yet to be satisfactorily rendered onscreen.

From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026

At the end of the day he returned to the fields again, collecting rice even after darkness had rendered his eyes useless.

From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park

He called for an open approach to AI development, warning it would be "fundamentally wrong" for such a crucial technology to be controlled by a few companies, rendering oversight more difficult.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

The effect would have been the opposite in prior years, rendering two successive decreases in citywide homelessness marginally less impressive.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

I scroll through the portraits he’d emailed me: two women laughing, a family smiling, and my personal favorite, a pop-artish rendering of Gigi Hadid.

From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026

It might be those ploughshare tortoises, 75 of which were stolen from a successful Madagascar breeding facility in 1996, rendering them virtually extinct.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

Whereupon Jackson commented that any judge rendering such an opinion in Georgia would be of short duration.”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

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