Difference between Ripping and Rending

What is the difference between Ripping and Rending?

Ripping as an adjective is that rips, or can be removed by ripping. while Rending as an adjective is that rends

Ripping

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: That rips, or can be removed by ripping. Excellent.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To divide or separate the parts of (especially something flimsy such as paper or fabric), by cutting or tearing; to tear off or out by violence.

Example sentence: I need to be performing. I need to be acting. I need to be designing a condo and ripping down walls and buying new plates and looking at fashion magazines. There always has to be some movement in the artistic department for me to not get really, really low.

Rending

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to split; to burst

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: that rends

We hope you now know whether to use Ripping or Rending in your sentence.

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