"We come not hither with the sword to rend / your Libyan homes, and shoreward drive the prey. / Nay, no such violence our thoughts intend, / such pride suits not the vanquished."
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Rend
//ɹɛnd//
Synonyms for "rend" (156 found)
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Related words (78)
parepick to piecespierceprunepry loose frompull in piecespull to piecespulverizepuncturerackreduce to rubblerend fromriprip fromriverunrupturesavagesawscald
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scissorscorchscotchscrapescratchscrewscuffseparatesevershake downshattershredskinslashsliceslitsmashsmitesnatchsnatch fromsnipsplitsprainsqueezestabstickstrainsundertake apartteartear aparttear fromtear to piecestear to shredstear to tatterstormenttotaltraumatizeunbuildundounmakewhittlewoundwrack upwreckwrenchwrench fromwrestwringwring from
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Translations
91 translations across 24 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- σπαράσσω verb (to separate into parts with force)
Bulgarian
4 entries- разделям verb (to part or tear off forcibly)
- скъсвам verb (to separate into parts with force)
- скъсвам се verb (to be rent or torn)
- съдирам verb (to separate into parts with force)
Catalan
2 entries- esgarrar verb (to separate into parts with force)
- esquinçar verb (to separate into parts with force)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᎦᏣᎦᎵᎭ verb (to separate into parts with force)
Czech
4 entries- odervat verb (to part or tear off forcibly)
- pukat verb (to be rent or torn)
- rozervat verb (to separate into parts with force)
- roztrhnout verb (to separate into parts with force)
Esperanto
1 entries- disŝiri verb (to separate into parts with force)
Finnish
4 entries- halkaista verb (to separate into parts with force)
- pirstoa verb (to separate into parts with force)
- pirstoutua verb (to be rent or torn)
- repeytyä verb (to be rent or torn)
French
2 entries- déchirer verb (to separate into parts with force)
- rompre verb (to separate into parts with force)
Galician
2 entries- esgazar verb (to part or tear off forcibly)
- rasgar verb (to separate into parts with force)
German
1 entries- zerreißen verb (to separate into parts with force)
Gothic
2 entries- 𐌳𐌹𐍃𐍃𐌺𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 verb (to separate into parts with force)
- 𐍄𐌰𐌷𐌾𐌰𐌽 verb (to separate into parts with force)
Hungarian
4 entries- elhasad verb (to be rent or torn)
- elreped verb (to be rent or torn)
- elrepeszt verb (to separate into parts with force)
- elszaggat verb (to part or tear off forcibly)
Irish
1 entries- rois verb (to separate into parts with force)
Italian
1 entries- spaccare verb (to separate into parts with force)
Latin
2 entries- lacerō verb (to separate into parts with force)
- laniō verb (to separate into parts with force)
Māori
2 entries- tīhae verb (to part or tear off forcibly)
- tīhaehae verb (to part or tear off forcibly)
Old English
3 entries- rendan verb (to separate into parts with force)
- rēofan verb (to separate into parts with force)
- teran verb (to separate into parts with force)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- یارمق verb (to separate into parts with force)
Portuguese
1 entries- rasgar verb (to separate into parts with force)
Romanian
2 entries- rupe verb (to separate into parts with force)
- sfâșia verb (to separate into parts with force)
Russian
3 entries- отрыва́ть verb (to part or tear off forcibly)
- раздира́ть verb (to separate into parts with force)
- разрыва́ть verb (to separate into parts with force)
Sanskrit
1 entries- दृणाति verb (to separate into parts with force)
Spanish
4 entries- desgajar verb (to separate into parts with force)
- desgarrar verb (to part or tear off forcibly)
- desgarrarse verb (to be rent or torn)
- destrozar verb (to separate into parts with force)
Tok Pisin
2 entries- brukim verb (to separate into parts with force)
- brukim verb (to part or tear off forcibly)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
So, when an aged ash on mountain tall / stout woodmen strive, with many a rival blow, / to rend from earth; awhile it threats to fall, / with quivering locks and nodding head; now slow / it sinks and, with a dying groan lies low, / and spreads its ruin on the mountain side.
Source: tatoeba (6859110)
Winds roll the waters, and the great seas rise. / Dispersed we welter on the gulfs. Damp night / has snatched with rain the heaven from our eyes, / and storm-mists in a mantle wrapt the light. / Flash after flash, and for a moment bright, / quick lightnings rend the welkin. Driven astray / we wander, robbed of reckoning, reft of sight. / No difference now between the night and day / e'en Palinurus sees, nor recollects the way.
Source: tatoeba (7009812)
There are also two statues of Hadrian there, and not far from the statues a perforated stone to which Jews come every year to anoint it, mourn with groans, rend their garments, and so depart.
Source: tatoeba (8784721)
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