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Rend

To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to tear asunder; to split; to burst; as, powder rends a rock in blasting; lightning rends an oak.

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Bust 76% connected

A piece of sculpture representing the upper part of the human figure, including the head, shoulders, and breast.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Rupture 76% connected

The act of breaking apart, or separating; the state of being broken asunder; as, the rupture of the skin; the rupture of a vessel or fiber; the ruptu…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Snap 76% connected

To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Tear 76% connected

A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moiste…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Pull 92% connected

To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Rip 92% connected

A wicker fish basket.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Rive 92% connected

To rend asunder by force; to split; to cleave; as, to rive timber for rails or shingles.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Abrupt verb · 78% connection

To tear off or asunder.

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Apo unknown · 78% connection

A prefix from a Greek preposition. It usually signifies from, away from, off, or asunder, separate; as, in apocope (a cutting off), ap…

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Assault noun · 78% connection

An apparently violent attempt, or willful offer with force or violence, to do hurt to another; an attempt or offer to beat another, ac…

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Bemangle verb · 78% connection

To mangle; to tear asunder.

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Break verb · 78% connection

To come apart or divide into two or more pieces, usually with suddenness and violence; to part; to burst asunder.

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Burst noun · 78% connection

A sudden breaking forth; a violent rending; an explosion; as, a burst of thunder; a burst of applause; a burst of passion; a burst of…

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Cleft adjective · 78% connection

Divided; split; partly divided or split.

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Coercion noun · 78% connection

The application to another of either physical or moral force. When the force is physical, and cannot be resisted, then the act produce…

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Destroy verb · 78% connection

To unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence o…

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Dilacerate verb · 78% connection

To rend asunder; to tear to pieces.

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Dirempt verb · 78% connection

To separate by force; to tear apart.

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Disintegrate verb · 78% connection

To separate into integrant parts; to reduce to fragments or to powder; to break up, or cause to fall to pieces, as a rock, by blows of…

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Disjoint verb · 78% connection

To separate the joints of; to separate, as parts united by joints; to put out of joint; to force out of its socket; to dislocate; as,…

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Dismember verb · 78% connection

To tear limb from limb; to dilacerate; to disjoin member from member; to tear or cut in pieces; to break up.

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Dispart verb · 78% connection

To part asunder; to divide; to separate; to sever; to rend; to rive or split; as, disparted air; disparted towers.

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Disroot verb · 78% connection

To tear up the roots of, or by the roots; hence, to tear from a foundation; to uproot.

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Disruption noun · 78% connection

The act or rending asunder, or the state of being rent asunder or broken in pieces; breach; rent; dilaceration; rupture; as, the disru…

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Dissect verb · 78% connection

To divide into separate parts; to cut in pieces; to separate and expose the parts of, as an animal or a plant, for examination and to…

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