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- v tear or be torn violently
- Slow peddle boat was one tenth the fare of steamers that rend the rivers serenity with their high-pitched whine and probably ten times safer.
- The Indian king led an army of devoted soldiers willing to rend his enemies limb from limb at his slightest indication?
- Politics and policy rend a big lenderThe White House has become involved in a maneuver to oust yet another top-level holdover Republican appointee.