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say it: REN-ding
rending is an adjective meaning "resembling a sound of violent tearing as of something ripped apart or lightning splitting a tree". It carries one recorded sense.
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for rending come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.