Definition of "rends" [rends]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of rend. (verb)

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• "I could have torn him limb from limb, as a lion rends the antelope."
• "The tragedy of those poor unemployed yachtwrights rends my heart, but I still maintain that public goods are useful."
• "If you shoot Captain America at point blank (careful to get under his adamantine chainmail shirt), the bullet rends regular old, human flesh and bone, and he dies."