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render as in:  rendered service or a verdict

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We're waiting for the jury to render a verdict.
render = give
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    I received an invoice for $100 for services rendered.
    rendered = provided or supplied
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    Such worship was the payment my kind demanded for services rendered.  (source)
    rendered = given
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    ...and the great services they rendered to Christianity.  (source)
    rendered = gave
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    She renders herself up, is blotted out; enters the darkness of her own body, forgets her name.†  (source)
    renders = gives or supplies
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    I didn't want to render it up, but they took it.  (source)
    render = give
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    Her companions were the lazier of the Old Sarum boys, the laziest of whom was one Albert Coningham, a slow thinker to whom Jean Louise had rendered invaluable service during six-weeks' tests.  (source)
    rendered = given
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    Such is th' acquittance render'd back of him, Who, beyond measure, dar'd on earth.†  (source)
    render'd = gave or supplied
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    62:12 Also unto thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy: for thou renderest to every man according to his work.†  (source)
    renderest = give or supply
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-est" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou renderest" in older English, today we say "You render."
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    66:6 A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the LORD that rendereth recompence to his enemies.†  (source)
    rendereth = gives or supplies
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She rendereth" in older English, today we say "She renders."
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    For me, it was readily leaving the narrow existence of my family and our ghetto of hide tanners and renderers.†  (source)
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    We have created a new caste system that forces thousands of people into homelessness, bans them from living with their families and in their communities, and renders them virtually unemployable.†  (source)
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    "I will render my ruling on Monday," Judge Thompson said.  (source)
    render = make (give)
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    Bennington represented a dying part of the South: the venerable, hoary-maned administrator who tended his district with the same care and paternalism the master once rendered to his plantation.  (source)
    rendered = gave or supplied
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render as in:  rendered her unconscious

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Her verbal attack rendered me speechless.
rendered = made
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    The disorder will eventually render her paralyzed.
    render = make
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    The shot rendered her immobile
    rendered = made
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    There was a very realistic chance that I was going to render Soraya a biwa, a widow, at the age of thirty-six.  (source)
    render = make
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    The surprise in her voice rushed her, but it also rendered her useless.  (source)
    rendered = made
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    I wondered if they could become confidantes of some kind, or if training and protocol would render them completely unable to even share a cup of tea with me.  (source)
    render = make
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    He does that staring and thinking thing again where his intense gaze somehow renders me unresponsive.  (source)
    renders = makes or causes to become
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    Just as I try to ask him again, he brings his lips to mine, rendering me speechless.  (source)
    rendering = making
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    The project was halted in 1963: some fifty miles of road were eventually built, but no bridges were ever erected over the many rivers it transected, and the route was shortly rendered impassable by thawing permafrost and seasonal floods.  (source)
    rendered = made
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    He could render Samson hairless or Goliath helpless.  (source)
    render = make (cause to become)
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    Your position as secretary to the minister renders your authority great on the subject of political news;  (source)
    renders = makes
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    A strain of melancholy, however, blended with his triumph, rendering his voice, as usual, soft and musical.  (source)
    rendering = making or causing to become
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    The blow rendered Grandpa unconscious, and he doesn't remember much until Grandma found him on the porch, soaked to his boots in blood.  (source)
    rendered = made
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    we thus aggravate the female's chronic horror of growing old ... and render her less willing and less able to bear children.  (source)
    render = make
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render as in:  rendered interpretation

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The pianist rendered the Beethoven sonata beautifully.
rendered = played (portrayed or gave her interpretation of)
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    The face of the child is rendered with much tenderness in this painting.
    rendered = portrayed or created in a particular way
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    Across the strip of cowhide one sees a rendering of a two-lane blacktop,  (source)
    rendering = portrayal or picture
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    The figure was a crude plastic rendering of her avatar, with the same face, hair, and outfit.  (source)
    rendering = portrayal; or graphic representation
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    Harris drew a perfect rendering of the map, showed it to the other captives, then destroyed it.  (source)
    rendering = drawn copy
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    The carvings are rendered with a grace and power of invention that lifts them out of the realm of craftsmanship and into the realm of art.  (source)
    rendered = portrayed or created (in a particular way)
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    Large paintings hung on the walls, depicting the kings of the past and a few renderings of old American and Canadian leaders.  (source)
    renderings = paintings
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    Nights when Betsie and I reported to sick call, we left the Bible with Mrs. Wielmaker, a saintly Roman Catholic woman from The Hague who could render the Dutch words in German, French, Latin, or Greek.  (source)
    render = translate (convert the words of one language into another language)
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    That it was a Utopia, there being no known method from the known to the unknown: an infinity renderable equally finite by the suppositious apposition of one or more bodies equally of the same and of different magnitudes: a mobility of illusory forms immobilised in space, remobilised in air: a past which possibly had ceased to exist as a present before its probable spectators had entered actual present existence.†  (source)
    renderable = able to be portrayed or created in a particular way  OR  able to be interpreted, translated, or extracted from
    standard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
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    They talk about how they are both routinely assumed to be Greek, Egyptian, Mexican—even in this misrendering they are joined.†  (source)
    misrendering = wrongly portraying
    standard prefix: The prefix "mis-" in misrendering means wrong and reverses the meaning of rendering. This is the same pattern you see in words like misunderstand, misbehave, and misuse.
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    In the yard was an old iron harrow propped up on piers of stacked brick and someone had wedged between the rails of it a forty gallon castiron cauldron of the kind once used for rendering hogs.  (source)
    rendering = extracting
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    churned butter, rendered fat, laid fires....  (source)
    rendered = extracted from
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    Unlike the stylish renderings I saw in the Capitol, this is definitely not a fashion statement.†  (source)
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    I'm also invited to take part in several group showings, mostly by women: they've heard about the ink throwing, read the snotty reviews, all of which render me legitimate, although from the east.  (source)
    render = portray or create in a particular way  OR  interpret, translate, or extract from
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