rend
verb (used with object)
to separate into parts with force or violence.
is rending
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present progressiveof rend (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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It is the worst of times, as it seems much of the fabric that has held together the interests and individuals that have made such prosperity possible is rending at the seams.
From US News ● Jun. 27, 2016
Why, when parsing a point, do its hosts sound like a hernia is rending their groin?
From Salon ● May 31, 2015
At first they refuse, but then fly affrighted: the cliff is rending and sinking, the elements are in wild tumult.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 by Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle
These are the questions that rise out of the dust and din of the colossal upheaval which is rending half of the world.
From The War After the War by Isaac Frederick Marcosson
But I attribute them all to your sense of the anguish that is rending all hearts, and to the peril that is threatening our land.
From Victor Hugo: His Life and Works by G. Barnett Smith
