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• tear (something) into pieces.

• "snapping teeth that would rend human flesh to shreds"

Similar: tear/rip apart, tear/rip in two, tear/rip to pieces, split, rupture, sever, separate, cleave, tear/rip asunder, sunder, rive, dissever,

Origin: Old English rendan ; related to Middle Low German rende .

• sound piercingly.
"a shrill scream rent the air"

• tear one's clothes as a sign of extreme grief or distress.
"the women began to wail and rend their garments"

• pull one's hair out as a sign of extreme grief or distress.
"men and women alike weep and rend their hair"