Definition of Rends

1. Verb. (third-person singular of rend) ¹

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Definition of Rends

1. rend [v] - See also: rend

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rends

rending
rendingly
rendition
renditioned
renditioning
renditions
rendre
rendred
rendres
rendrest
rendreth
rendring
rendrock
rendryng
rendrynge
rends (current term)
rendzina
rendzinas
renegade
renegade state
renegaded
renegades
renegading
renegado
renegadoes
renegados
renegate
renegates
renegation
renegations

Literary usage of Rends

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Iliad of Homer by Homer (1796)
"... thunder rends the clouded air, Who in the heav'n of heav'ns has fix'd thy throne, Supreme of Gods! unbounded, and alone! ..."

2. The Poetical Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1909)
"Her sister hears; and, furious with despair, She beats her breast, and rends her yellow despair, The Sisters had not cut the topmost hair, And, ..."

3. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
"The dismal cry Of men in fierce fight, and of men who fall Beneath relentless Mars, rends all the air. Then Venus, by her offspring's guiltless woe Sore ..."

4. The Dawn in Britain by Charles Montagu Doughty (1906)
"... rends, lo, with furious hands, his harness ; He gapes, with wildered front, for living breath ! With lean uplifted looks, now stares distract; ..."

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