Rend vs Demolish - What's the difference?
rend | demolish | Related terms |
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.
To destroy; to destruct.
(figuratively) To utterly defeat.
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Rend is a related term of demolish.
As verbs the difference between rend and demolish
is that rend is to separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to tear asunder; to split; to burst while demolish is to destroy; to destruct.rend
English
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.
Anagrams
* English irregular verbs ----demolish
English
Verb
(es)- They demolished the old house and put up four townhouses.
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