Ren vs Rend - What's the difference?
ren | rend |
(anatomy) A kidney.
(lb) One's secret name, as part of the soul in ancient Egyptian mythology.
* 1983 , Norman Mailer, Ancient Evenings :
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 ren and rend
is that ren is to groan, moan while rend is to separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to tear asunder; to split; to burst.ren
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(wikipedia ren)Etymology 1
From (etyl) ren.Noun
(es)Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- For the Ren did not belong to the man, but came out of the Celestial Waters to enter an infant in the hour of his birth and might not stir again until it was time to go back.
Anagrams
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Verb
- 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.