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verb

past tense of render
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as in relinquished
to give (something) over to the control or possession of another usually under duress a gentleman bandit who graciously asked his victims to render their wallets to his safe possession

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Recent Examples of rendered
Verb
With each impact, Sarah’s face disintegrates into a bloodier pulp, her bone structure buckling under every successive thud until Nikki has finally and irrevocably rendered the character a faceless corpse. — Chris Lee, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2026 The umbrella was quickly rendered useless as the winds were blowing hard. — Chicago Tribune, 30 Oct. 2026 Rather than being pulled or shredded, the pork is quartered, its skin rendered crisp in the oven throughout the day, and then chopped to order by weight and dressed with a South Carolina-style vinegar sauce. — Hilary Cadigan, Bon Appetit Magazine, 29 Oct. 2026 Guests who think an occasional bottle of wine flung on the counter has rendered this custom obsolete should note that any sensible hostess will disagree. — Judith Martin, Sun Sentinel, 28 Oct. 2026 Many of the women in the packed courtroom gallery appeared unhappy when the sentences were rendered. — Arkansas Online, 28 Oct. 2026 Titian rendered several small dogs, not just in portraits of Italian nobles, but in genre paintings of classical and biblical scenes, too. — Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2026 This includes each of the shoe’s signature wavy stripes, which can also be rendered in either leather or synthetic suede. — Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 28 Oct. 2026 After officers rendered immediate medical aid, paramedics responded and pronounced the man dead at the scene. — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 23 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rendered
Adjective
  • But first, the premiere settles the audience into a tried and true cop drama with power struggles over jurisdiction, a local militia led by a man with his own agenda, and a suspect who literally blows the case wide open.
    — Sabrina Reed, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Short films are a tried and true launching pad for horror directors.
    — Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 14 July 2026
Verb
  • No other Dolphins defender relinquished more than 13 yards in completions on Sunday, according to PFF.
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 2 Nov. 2026
  • The singer wasn’t home at the time, but others there relinquished the monkey.
    — Alex Heigl, PEOPLE, 26 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Altonaga ruled that the dispute required a more developed factual record, particularly because the university’s earlier submissions selectively reproduced statements without providing their complete conversational context.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 28 Oct. 2026
  • An elusive recipe In 2020, Dutch researchers reproduced the green/red dichroic effect of the Lycurgus Cup in a 3D printable nanocomposite material by embedding small amounts of silver and gold nanoparticles, of the proper size and shapes.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 27 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • His administration has described the agreements as historic, but the raises secured by the two groups of first responders differ considerably.
    — Verónica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Prominent Democrats and Republicans have described the midterm elections in near-apocalyptic terms.
    — James Speyer, New York Daily News, 30 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • These were condensates — liquid- or gel-like bubbles of concentrated proteins suspended in solution.
    — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Our founders feared concentrated, unchecked power, and Congress built the SEC to guard against it after the 1929 collapse.
    — Andrew Behar, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Wyatt needed an onside kick recovery for any chance of an improbable comeback and Adrian Dunn delivered.
    — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Oct. 2026
  • During the day, activities center around lectures, delivered by enthusiastic expedition team members.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The lawsuit says Brave crawled and copied content from more than 30 billion webpages in its index without identifying itself or providing the owners of websites any mechanism to block its crawler, according to the newspapers’ complaint.
    — Molly Crane Newman, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Nov. 2026
  • The lawsuit says Brave crawled and copied content from more than 30 billion webpages in its index without identifying itself or providing the website owners with any mechanism to block its crawler, according to The News’s complaint.
    — Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 2 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • Biggs also earned the backing from the left-leaning Service Employees International Union and portrayed herself as a progressive.
    — Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Trump has portrayed the bill as a simple fix to a complicated problem.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 Nov. 2026

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“Rendered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rendered. Accessed 4 Nov. 2026.

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