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Incise vs Rend - What's the difference?

incise | rend |

As verbs the difference between incise and rend

is that incise is to cut in or into with a sharp instrument; to carve; to engrave while rend is to separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to tear asunder; to split; to burst.

incise

English

Alternative forms

* encise

Verb

(incis)
  • to cut in or into with a sharp instrument; to carve; to engrave
  • rend

    English

    Verb

  • To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to tear asunder; to split; to burst
  • Powder rends a rock in blasting.
    Lightning rends an oak.
  • * 1610 , , act 1 scene 2
  • If thou more murmur'st, I will rend an oak / And peg thee in his knotty entrails till / Thou hast howl'd away twelve winters.
  • * 1970 , Alvin Toffler, Future Shock'', ''Bantam Books , pg. 317:
  • We are most vulnerable now to the messages of the new subcults, to the claims and counterclaims that rend the air.
  • To part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force.
  • To be rent or torn; to become parted; to separate; to split.
  • Relationships may rend if tempers flare.
    Rending of garments for shiva is a Jewish tradition.

    Anagrams

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