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UK
/ɹˈɛndɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈɹɛndɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈɹɛndɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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resembling a sound of violent tearing as of something ripped apart or lightning splitting a tree
the tree split with a great ripping sound
heard a rending roar as the crowd surged forward
How To Use rending In A Sentence
- During the neverending arguments about women priests even the women concerned were mostly scrupulous about not using the ‘pagan’ term priestess, extraordinary misrepresentations of Jesus' followers were cited as ‘proof’ that women were not meant to be members of the clergy. The Templar Revelation
- And all the leading economic indicators are trending upward.
- The Park overlies a segment of a 400 km long southwest-trending fossil reef that surrounds the Delaware Basin of southeastern New Mexico and western Texas which was a small reef-fringed inland sea in Permian times 280-250 mya. Carlsbad Caverns National Park, United States
- The first vertical arrow marks the point where MACD - Histogram starts trending higher.
- Sometimes for comic effect — loved how Santana's hilariously torchy "Trouty Mouth" ode to Sam was briefly trending on Twitter — but more frequently for overdue emotional payoff, because as Mr. Shue says, "The greatest songs are about hurt. Matt's TV Week in Review
- Drama, campiness, and comedy coexist equally on-stage, resulting in a brew which is hilarious and at the same time heart-rending.
- Each has its huge white Wady, striping the country in alternation with dark-brown divides, and trending coastwards in the usual network. The Land of Midian
- At the moment of judgement, some displayed surprise, some anger, others a heart-rending sadness.
- Mineralization at the Haldane property is controlled by northerly trending structures, and consists of galena, sphalerite and tetrahedrite - tennantite in quart-siderite gangue. Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
- There is nothing about the story that is not heart-rending, sickening or sordid.