Meanings (ES + gloss)
desgajar • destrozar • rasgar • romper
To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to split; to burst.
Lightning rends an oak.
Powder rends a rock in blasting.
desgarrar • rasgar
To part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force; to amputate.
And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward…
For a time, there reigned, too, a sense of peculiar dread at this flitting apparition, as if it were treacherously beckoning us on and on, in order that the monster might turn roun…
desgarrarse • romperse
To be rent or torn; to become parted; to separate; to split.
Relationships may rend if tempers flare.