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rends

  • present tense form
    of rend (3rd person singular).
    rend
    verb (used with object)
    to separate into parts with force or violence.

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Noted playwright Hudes pens a stunning debut novel that rends conventional notions of motherhood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2025

We find her at a bleak roadside cemetery where her grief rends the air.

From BBC ● May 9, 2023

What’s left behind after a natural disaster so powerful that it rends the foundations of a society?

From Washington Times ● Feb. 10, 2023

As a result, Alisa makes a terrible choice that rends the family forever.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2022

But yet—tho' Time some foliage rends, The stem, the Friendship, still is ours; And long may it endure, as green And fresh as it hath always been!

From The Golden Link of Friendship by Various