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Verb: rend (rent)  rend
  1. Tear or be torn violently
    "The curtain rent from top to bottom";
    - rip, rive [archaic], pull

Derived forms: rent, rends, rending

Type of: bust [informal], rupture, snap, tear

Encyclopedia: Rend, Iran