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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++rend /rend/ verb (past tense and past participle rent /rent/) [transitive] literary BREAKto tear or break something violently into pieces 猛力撕碎；把…打碎→ See Verb table

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 various upheavals, sometimes of a quite violent nature.• Above them, something gave way with a long, rending metallic screech.Origin rend Old English rendan

rend verbChinese

to into pieces or something Corpus tear violently break

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rend /rend/

verb (past tense and past participle rent /rent/) [transitive] literary

Language: Old English
Origin: rendan

to tear or break something violently into pieces

rend

BrE

/rend/

NAmE

/rend/

verb

present simple - I / you / we / they

rend

BrE

/rend/

NAmE

/rend/

present simple - he / she / it

rends

BrE

/rendz/

NAmE

/rendz/

past simple

rent

BrE

/rent/

NAmE

/rent/

past participle

rent

BrE

/rent/

NAmE

/rent/

-ing form

rending

BrE

/ˈrendɪŋ/

NAmE

/ˈrendɪŋ/

~ sth

(

old use

or

literary

)

to tear sth apart with force or violence 撕开；撕碎

◆They rent their clothes in grief. 他们在悲痛之中扯碎了自己的衣服。

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figurative

)

a country rent in two by civil war被内战一分为二的国家

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(

figurative

)

Loud screams rent the air. 高声的尖叫划破了天空。

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