rent

Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/ˈɹɛnt/]

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1. rent (noun) — sense 1

Definition: A tear or rip in some surface.

Example: [O]ne streak of copper-coloured light made a narrow rent between sea and sky.

2. rent (noun) — sense 2

Definition: A division or schism.

Example: [T]he White House was considering sending Vice President Humphrey to Cairo to patch up the many rents in U.S.—Egyptian relations.

3. rent (adj) — sense 3

Definition: That has been torn or rent; ripped; torn.

Example: Indeed, we could clearly make out the arch and stony banks of this second cave, and, from their rent and jagged appearance, discovered that, like the first long passage down which we had passed through the cliff before we reached the quivering spur, it had to all appearance been torn in the bowels of the rock by the terrific force of some explosive gas.

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