What is the difference between rend and tear?

Tear is a synonym of rend.

In transitive terms the difference between rend and tear

is that rend is to part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force while tear is to make (an opening) with force or energy.

In intransitive terms the difference between rend and tear

is that rend is to be rent or torn; to become parted; to separate; to split while tear is to produce tears.

As a noun tear is

a hole or break caused by tearing.

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.

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tear
English

Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .
Verb

To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate.

* 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling

He suffered, poor man, at seeing her so badly dressed, with laceless boots, and the arm-holes of her pinafore torn down to the hips; for the charwoman took no care of her.

To injure as if by pulling apart.

To cause to lose some kind of unity or coherence.

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To make (an opening) with force or energy.

To remove by tearing.

To demolish

To become torn, especially accidentally.

To move or act with great speed, energy, or violence.

To smash or enter something with great force.

Synonyms
* (break) rend, rip * (remove by tearing) rip out, tear off, tear out
Related terms
* tearaway * tear apart * tear down * tear into * tear up * that's torn it * wear and tear * retear
Noun
(en noun)
A hole or break caused by tearing.

A small tear is easy to mend, if it is on the seam.

Derived terms
* wear and tear
Derived terms
* tearsheet
Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) .
Noun
(wikipedia tear) (en noun)
A drop of clear, salty liquid produced from the eyes by crying or irritation.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=6 citation , passage=‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]’.}}

Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins.

* Dryden

Let Araby extol her happy coast, / Her fragrant flowers, her trees with precious tears .

That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge.

* Milton

some melodious tear

Derived terms
{{der3 , crocodile tears , shed a tear , teardrop , tear duct , tearful , tear up , teary , two tears in a bucket }}
Verb
(en verb)
To produce tears.

Her eyes began to tear in the harsh wind.

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