rent Definition

rend
verb rent, rending

old use:
1. To tear something apart, especially using force or violence; to split.

Thesaurus: rip, tear, break, hurt, rupture, cleave, separate, split, divide, lacerate.
intr
2. To tear or split, especially violently or with force.
3. To tear something forcibly or violently away from someone.
4. To tear (one's hair, clothes, etc) in grief, rage, etc.
5. Said of a noise: to disturb (the silence, the air, etc) with a loud, piercing sound.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon.

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rent¹
noun

1. Money paid periodically to the owner of a property by a tenant in return for the use or occupation of that property.

Thesaurus: lease, rental, payment, fee, tariff, hire, gale.

verb rented, renting

1. To pay rent for (a building, house, flat, etc).

Thesaurus: hire, pay rent for, borrow.
2. To allow someone the use of (one's property) in return for payment of rent.

Thesaurus: lease, let, sublet, make available, farm out, put on loan.
Form: rent something out (usually)
intr
3. To be hired out for rent.

Derivative: rentability
noun

Derivative: rentable
adj

Derivative: rented
adj

Example: rented accommodation

Derivative: renter
noun

Etymology: 12c: from French rente revenue, from Latin rendere to render.

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rent²
noun

old use:
1. An opening or split made by tearing or rending.

Thesaurus: break, tear, crack, split, gash, rip, rupture, hole, chink, perforation; breach, opening, rift, division.
2. A fissure.

verb

1. Past tense, past participle of rend.

Etymology: 16c.