rend
verb (used with object)
to separate into parts with force or violence.
will rend
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future tenseof rend.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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But wrath will rend This strange composure back’d with reason stout And rasher tongues right speedily will spend Their forward censure, that my wits run out On wool-gathering, through infinite spaces all about.
From Democritus Platonissans by Henry More
Pain will tear our bodies, but we will have no wrinkles on our statues; suffering will rend our heart, but we will have no shadows on our pictures.
From The world's great sermons, Volume 08 Talmage to Knox Little by Grenville Kleiser
The anger we create will rend us; the love we give will return to us.
From The National Being Some Thoughts on an Irish Polity by George William Russell
We will rend down hedges, fill up ditches, and make a way for every man into the common pasture.
From The Rise of the Democracy by Joseph Clayton
He will rend the Labour party in twain from the top to the bottom, and will see the agricultural vote drop off his industrials just as it had begun to adhere to them.
From In a Green Shade A Country Commentary by Maurice Henry Hewlett
