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1.                 From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
                   
   
   
                   
                     
   rending
       adj 1: 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" [syn: rending, ripping,
              splitting]