Incise vs Rend - What's the difference?
incise | rend |
to cut in or into with a sharp instrument; to carve; to engrave
To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to tear asunder; to split; to burst
* 1610 , , act 1 scene 2
* 1970 , Alvin Toffler, Future Shock'', ''Bantam Books , pg. 317:
To part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force.
To be rent or torn; to become parted; to separate; to split.
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
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Alternative forms
* enciseVerb
(incis)rend
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- Powder rends a rock in blasting.
- Lightning rends an oak.
- 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.
- We are most vulnerable now to the messages of the new subcults, to the claims and counterclaims that rend the air.
- Relationships may rend if tempers flare.
- Rending of garments for shiva is a Jewish tradition.