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• v  tear or be torn violently
• s  resembling a sound of violent tearing as of something ripped apart or lightning splitting a tree
  heard a rending roar as the crowd surged forward

• For months, the 57-year-old billionaire had promised not to return to the political arena for fear of further rending the delicate fabric of Thai democracy.
• He presented his soul-rending corollary to the decision: Cornelia must become a nun.
• Not only were there rending, sometimes bloody clashes between peace demonstrators and peace officers, but a scattering of vicious brawls set citizen against citizen as well.

• rend
• rip
• rive
• pull
• ripping
• splitting

News & Articles

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• Paul Sybert Announces Music CD “Across the Border Songs”
  Compiled over thirty years, The Dreamer and the Hummingbird is author Paul Sybert dramatic collection of heart-rending lyrics and soul-shattering poetry. (PRWeb June 25, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/6/prweb10578609.htm
  June 25, 2013 - PRWeb

Quotes

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• Bob Ainsworth in Telegraph.co.uk
  Bob Ainsworth, the Defence Secretary, said: "These three brave soldiers have made the ultimate sacrifice to ensure the security of all of us in the United Kingdom. Their deaths are truly heart rending and their families are in my thoughts; the loved...
• Max Clifford in Telegraph.co.uk
  Mr Clifford added: "It was a very heart-rending, happy ceremony. There were lots of tears and lots of smiles. She looked absolutely beautiful."
• Charles Steger in The Australian
  An entire year has passed since the heart-rending events that we mark today,university president Charles Steger told the assembled crowd. "And while the passage of time has helped us in many ways, we remain deeply and profoundly saddened...