rend /rend/ verb (past tensepst and past participlepprent /rent/) [transitiveT] literary
BREAKto tear or break something violently into pieces 猛力撕碎;把…打碎
Examples from the Corpus
rend• The veils are parting, the mists are rent asunder.• Historically, as we have seen, the country has been rent by variousupheavals, sometimes of a quite violentnature.• Above them, something gave way with a long, rendingmetallicscreech.