Usually means: Tearing something into pieces violently.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. rending: Merriam-Webster
  2. rending: Collins English Dictionary
  3. rending: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. rending: Wiktionary
  5. Rending, rending: Dictionary.com
  6. Rending: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. rending: Rhymezone
  8. Rending: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. rending: FreeDictionary.org
  10. rending: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. rending: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. rending: Vocabulary.com
  13. Rending, rending: Wordnik

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rending: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rending: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rending: Idioms

(Note: See rend as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (rending)

noun:  The act by which something is rent, or torn.

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