Definitions of rend

1. To be rent.

2. To tear forcibly; split; sunder.

3. To part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force.

4. To tear apart with violence; split; as, the wind did not rend the sail; to take away by force; as, to rend colonies from a mother country.

5. To tear asunder with force: to split:- pa. t. and pa. p. rent.

6. To tear asunder; tear; split.

7. To be rent or torn; to become parted; to separate; to split.

8. To become torn.

9. tear or be torn violently; " The curtain ripped from top to bottom"; " pull the cooked chicken into strips"

10. To tear asunder; to split; to tear away with violence.

11. To separate or part with violence; to lacerate; to force asunder; to sever; to split.

12. Randing.