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Meanings of rending in English
Resembling a sound of violent tearing as of something ripped apart or lightning splitting a tree.
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Examples for "ripping"
Examples for "ripping"
1
A second later came another explosion of ripping wood: the front door.
2
Spaceport staff had a nice racket going ripping off the new colonists.
3
The next moment Mayo heard the ripping of tackle and a crash.
4
Two ripping panels are embodied in the top lobe of the envelope.
5
The tits experienced no difficulty in ripping this off with the beak.
1
Mrs Goodman said a by-election would remove the issue of vote splitting.
2
Tantalizingly, abalone are also splitting into new species at a startling rate.
3
The best way to cover that much ground is by splitting up.
4
In the future version, the beauty queen cries: You're splitting apart inside!
5
Now I don't have any problem with a writer splitting an infinitive.
Usage of rending in English
1
I hope the road to revulsion continues to separate rendering and rending.
2
The first sign was the rending of the veil of the temple.
3
But there was a rending, tearing noise of work going on inside.
4
A rending, splintering sound made them all look back at the house.
5
Those had been passionate and rending tears; these did not even flow.
6
Behind the ragged lips were animals' teeth, made for rending and tearing.
7
At that moment heart-rending cries came from the direction of the grating.
8
With a heart-rending cry, Hortense sank to the ground in a swoon.
9
The flames that issued from the rending globe set everything on fire.
10
The day of parting came, and most bitter and heart-rending it was.
11
The undulations became greater as they advanced, and the rending sounds continuous.
12
Here we have the rending of corpses connected with change of form.
13
A noise of rending and crashing came dully through the ponderous stone.
14
With a screeching, rending noise, the rotten timbers gave way beneath her.
15
Sometimes the memory of them would pierce him like some rending sorrow.
16
Jealousy-bitterjealousy; that was what had been rending her heart, he knew.
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United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common