berend
verbEtymology From Middle English *berenden, from Old English berendan (“to peel, take off husk”); equivalent to be- + rend.
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To rend or tear severely; tear badly; rip all over.
- Then red with ire, her tresses she berent; And weeping hid the beauty of her face:1904, Elizabethan sonnets
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