Adjective rending has 1 sense
- rending, ripping, splitting - resembling a sound of violent tearing as of something ripped apart or lightning splitting a tree; "the tree split with a great ripping sound"; "heard a rending roar as the crowd surged forward"
Antonyms: euphonious, euphonous (indirect, via cacophonous)
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Verb rend has 1 sense
- rend, rip, rive, pull - tear or be torn violently; "The curtain ripped from top to bottom"; "pull the cooked chicken into strips"
--1 is one way to tear, rupture, snap, bust
Sample sentences:
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Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
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