| Rent 1. (imp. & p. p.) of Rend. 2. (v. i.) To rant. 3. (v.) imp. & p. p. of Rend. 4. (n.) An opening made by rending; a break or breach made by force; a tear. 5. (n.) Figuratively, a schism; a rupture of harmony; a separation; as, a rent in the church. 6. (v. t.) To tear. See Rend. 7. (n.) Income; revenue. See Catel. 8. (n.) Pay; reward; share; toll. 9. (n.) A certain periodical profit, whether in money, provisions, chattels, or labor, issuing out of lands and tenements in payment for the use; commonly, a certain pecuniary sum agreed upon between a tenant and his landlord, paid at fixed intervals by the lessee to the lessor, for the use of land or its appendages; as, rent for a farm, a house, a park, etc. 10. (n.) To grant the possession and enjoyment of, for a rent; to lease; as, the owner of an estate or house rents it. 11. (n.) To take and hold under an agreement to pay rent; as, the tenant rents an estate of the owner. 12. (v. i.) To be leased, or let for rent; as, an estate rents for five hundred dollars a year. Thesaurus Entries abrasion, abysm, abyss, aggravated, arroyo, bareboat charter, blemish, box canyon, breach, break, breakage, broach, broken, burn, burned, burst, busted, canyon, cavity, chafe, chap, charter, chasm, check, checked, chimney, chink, chinky, chip, chipped, cleave, cleft, cleuch, clough, cloven, col, concussion, coulee, couloir, crack, cracked, crackle, cranny, craze, crazed, crevasse, crevice, cut, cut apart, cut open, cwm, damaged, defile, dehiscent, dell, deteriorated, dike, dispart, ditch, divaricate, divide, donga, draw, embittered, exacerbated, excavation, farm, farm out, fault, fee, fissure, fissured, fissury, flash burn, flaw, flume, fly open, fracture, fray, frazzle, furrow, gall, gap, gape, gaping, gappy, gash, gorge, groove, gulch, gulf, gully, harmed, hire, hire out, hiring, hole, hurt, impaired, imperfect, in bits, in pieces, in shards, in shreds, incise, incision, injured, injury, irritated, job, joint, kloof, lacerate, lacerated, laceration, lay open, leak, lease, lease out, lease-back, lease-lend, lend-lease, lesion, let, let off, let out, mangled, moat, mortal wound, mutilated, mutilation, notch, nullah, ope, open, open up, opening, part, pass, passage, puncture, quartered, quitrent, rack rent, ragged, ravine, rent charge, rent out, rent-roll, rental, rift, rime, rimose, rimulose, rip, rive, riven, run, rupture, ruptured, scald, scalded, scale, schism, scissure, scorch, scorched, scrape, scratch, scuff, seam, second-degree burn, separate, severed, shattered, shredded, slash, slashed, slice, slit, slot, smashed, sore, splinter, splintered, split, spread, spread out, spring open, sprung, stab, stab wound, sublease, sublet, subrent, swing open, tap, tattered, tear, tear open, the worse for, third-degree burn, throw open, torn, trauma, trench, underlet, valley, void, wadi, weakened, worse, worse off, worsened, wound, wounds immedicable, wrench |