Jane Porter

The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you.

Irish Novelist

Katharine Lee Bates

It is the hour to rend thy chains, the blossom time of souls.

American Author

Used to describe an intense, often aggressive physical action resulting in destruction.

Violent Action

Sometimes used figuratively to describe division or upheaval in communities or groups.

Metaphorical Use

Can describe the act of tearing abstract things, like silence or the atmosphere.

Not Physical

Speaks to the depth of emotional or psychological impact on a person.

Emotional Pain

It doesn't refer to physical pain, but rather deep emotional disturbance.

Not Physical Pain

Often found in literature or dramatic contexts to highlight emotional intensity.

Dramatic Scenarios

Highlights an action that causes separation by an external force or situation.

Forced Separation

The separation or removal is typically against the will of those being separated.

Emphasizes Unwillingness

Implies that the removal or separation occurs suddenly and unexpectedly.

Sudden Disruption

 hole with a zombie rending your flesh off your body you're not alone there's a group of people who've worked very hard to kill you in just the right way they really feel for you and actually that moment of death in a video game is one of the most honest it's when the

How we think about death...

 I understand that somebody began to rend a song. And the song began to move on I understand like this.

Rend

Violent Action

Metaphorical Use

Not Physical

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