Rending [verb]
Definition of Rending:
tear
Sentence/Example of Rending:
She managed it with difficulty between the convulsions that were rending her.
By a rending effort of the will he woke the rest of the room up.
There was a cracking and rending of timbers, and the water rushed in.
It's the devil that has entered into his heart and is rending him.
With a rending crash it gave, and they fell sprawling into the cabin.
Promptly, with a sound of rending wood, the top flew half-way up.
The rending noises of the ice in all directions were distinct and fearful.
The Veronese were for rending their hearts and not their rulers that day.
It was an explosion, yes, but subtly different from the rending snap of hexynitrate.
There was a rending, crashing roar, a sea of flame—and darkness.