Tear violently
The crossword clue "Tear violently" is answered by REND, a 4-letter entry. Used 19 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 1979. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
REND
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the REND answer page.
Used 19 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 1979. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
Other clues for REND
Every other clue in this collection answered by REND, most used first.
- Tear - used 216 times, most recently in 2026
- Tear apart - used 207 times, most recently in 2026
- Rip apart - used 74 times, most recently in 2026
- Split - used 72 times, most recently in 2025
- Split apart - used 43 times, most recently in 2024
- Tear asunder - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
- Tear to bits - used 37 times, most recently in 2025
- Cleave - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
- Tear to pieces - used 31 times, most recently in 2025
- Sunder - used 29 times, most recently in 2024
- Pull apart - used 28 times, most recently in 2024
- Tear up - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Tear to shreds - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Divide - used 17 times, most recently in 2022
- Rip - used 15 times, most recently in 2024
- Rip to shreds - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Shred - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Rip to bits - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Rip roughly - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
- Rip up - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
- Rive - used 7 times, most recently in 2007
- Tear in two - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Lacerate - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
- Separate with force - used 6 times, most recently in 2010
- Sever - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- Tear into pieces - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Tear down - RAZE, used 82 times
- Tear apart - RIVE, used 53 times
- Tear - RENT, used 31 times
- Tear - RACE, used 24 times
- ___ and tear - WEAR, used 19 times
- Declaim violently - RANT, used 12 times
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