rending

Definitions

The act of tearing something apart or splitting it violently.

Causing great emotional distress or anguish.

Examples

The rending sound of metal twisting echoed through the factory as the machine collapsed.

She felt a rending pain in her heart as she watched her childhood home being demolished.

Synonyms

tearing ripping splitting severing lacerating cleaving rupturing

Antonyms

mending repairing joining fastening uniting sewing attaching