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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Leave go, I say, or you will rend my jerkin asunder.
From Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire by William Harrison Ainsworth
“I feel no rest within my breast, Methinks my very heart will rend: Would God, the King of all, would bring This horrible night to a speedy end.”
From King Hacon's Death and Bran and the Black Dog two ballads by George Henry Borrow
Then I shall shut myself up and say farewell to the world while I create a masterpiece that will rend your heart and your tear glands.
From Phebe, Her Profession A Sequel to Teddy: Her Book by Anna Chapin Ray
If you do not look the brute gossip steadily in the eye, if so much as an eye-lash quivers, it will rend you.
From On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Wilhelmine von Hillern
O my friend, I have a tale to unfold—a tale which will rend every nerve of sympathizing pity, which will rack the breast of sensibility, and unspeakably distress your benevolent heart.
From The Coquette The History of Eliza Wharton by Hannah Webster Foster
