Xé, xé nát

to rend a piece of cloth in twain

xé miếng vải ra làm đôi

to rend something asunder (apart)

xé nát vật gì

loud shouts rend the air

những tiếng thét to xé không khí

(nghĩa bóng) làm đau đớn, giày vò

to rend someone's heart

làm đau lòng ai

Bứt, chia rẽ, chẻ ra (lạt, thanh mỏng)

to rend one's hair

bứt tóc, bứt tai

to rend laths

chẻ lạt, chẻ thành những thanh mỏng

Vung ra khỏi, giằng ra khỏi

to rend from somebody's arms

vùng ra khỏi tay ai

Nứt ra, nẻ ra

nứt ra

chẻ

V.

Rip or tear or pull (to pieces or apart or asunder),wrench, mangle, shred: The bully threatened to rend me limbfrom limb.

Split, tear, rip, rupture, cleave, split, rive,separate, slice, lacerate: When the balloon was rent from topto bottom, the basket fell to the ground. 3 pain, distress,pierce, stab, smite, wound, afflict, torment, wring, hurt: Myheart was rent by conflicting emotions.

V.

(past and past part. rent) archaic or rhet.

Tr. (foll.by off, from, away, etc.; also absol.) tear or wrench forcibly.2 tr. & intr. split or divide in pieces or into factions (acountry rent by civil war).

Tr. cause emotional pain to (theheart etc.).