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tore

[tawr, tohr]

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verb

simple past tense of tear².

Nonstandard. a past participle of tear².

Example Sentences

Demonstrators tore down two lampposts, one falling into a crowd.

The remaining two cases involved a worker who got human blood in his eye and a biowaste bag that tore in the trash.

As journalists and camera crews looked on, he and a band of rustic confrères tore the place apart.

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Demonstrators tore down two lampposts, one falling into a crowd.

The remaining two cases involved a worker who got human blood in his eye and a biowaste bag that tore in the trash.

As journalists and camera crews looked on, he and a band of rustic confrères tore the place apart.

Unfortunately, the jets also tore apart hillsides and riverbeds, many of which are still barren.

Viki then tore off again in this same imaginary pulltoy position.

The wildlife division trapped deer for one day, and quit because the bait attracted the hogs, which tore up the traps.

Government programs bought condemned homes and tore them down.

Amid all this were two letters of scorn, which she tore to pieces.

The bag tore within about an hour of use, dumping the cardboard pen into the slush.

And when it rained, he simply tore off a few large banana leaves to cover his head.

The poor man broke two fingers when his nocturnal alter ego tore off the restraints he'd used to avoid moving in bed.

She tore down the runway toward him with open arms, her spirits-and feet-flying.

Thousands of online volunteers tore through the images over the weekend.

They tore the leaves off the plant and swallowed them whole, and the leaves were then processed in the animals' guts.

The crew lost control of the ship, which pitched and yawed violently until the strain finally tore her apart.

Suddenly the bell ringer stopped, and shooting tore the air.

However, eventually some water damaged my envelope and one day the tricks tore out the bottom and spilled everywhere.

The effect would have been as though a lousy cosmic golfer tore up a giant chunk of turf and sent it hurtling into orbit.

The woman did not let it go even when the car tore away.

Hear about one family's terrifying brush with death as a raging river of mud tore through their home.

If the ballot was not in favour of the party preferred by the woman, she tore it up, the journalist claimed.

Not far beneath the surface, jagged towers of coral tore into the ship's hull and held the vessel fast.

He twisted and tore his knee and doctors recommended surgery.

Wind gusts tore tents from their moorings and forced his team to retreat to lower elevations, he wrote.

He tore out of there, but not before grabbing the food we'd stashed outside in the snow.

Ravens flew in, sat on his wounded hip, and tore pieces of his flesh while he feebly tried to repel them.

We tore across fields and aimed uphill through a forest.

White eruptions tore off the tops of the waves and streamed their shoulders in long streaks of foam.

Rather than fix it up, the owner tore it down and is.

When the ocean came aground it tore apart everything in its path and carried it deep inland.

Cross, one of the best blocking tight ends in football, slightly tore a ligament in his knee during the preseason.

Corporate raiders and financial engineers tore apart underperforming companies.

The ape subsequently tore apart and ate the smaller primate.

They pulled him down and tore into him in seconds".

Sliwa tore up the typewritten sheet and flung the pieces into the air.

What matters is that they tore off a piece of a country and erected some tickytack people's republic of something or other.

Rioters tore the police station's outer door off its hinges and.

The big cyclone came first, and tore things to pieces.

Wind gusts of more than forty miles an hour tore into the soaking city last night.

They tore up a few mesquite groves and disappeared, leaving only the fitful wind and rain of a blown opportunity.

But they were furious when the city recently tore up the streets again to put in new sewer lines.

Then they got back to their hooch, and tore off their gear.

Last year, he fell while running down a steep hill, twisting his ankle so badly that he tore his ligaments.

The hole it tore out of the sea vaporized, the spray driven downwind.

He tore it off and kept it because he knew the idea was a winner.

Earlier this year he tore a ligament in his knee which required orthopedic surgery.

He was so freaked out that he tore through it and got out.

She tore the top layer of skin off, not a real bad bite.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun

a torus.

Origin:
< French < Latin torus

noun

a drop of the saline, watery fluid continually secreted by the lacrimal glands between the surface of the eye and the eyelid, serving to moisten and lubricate these parts and keep them clear of foreign particles. Synonyms: teardrop.

this fluid appearing in or flowing from the eye as the result of emotion, especially grief: to shed tears.

something resembling or suggesting a tear, as a drop of a liquid or a tearlike mass of a solid substance, especially having a spherical or globular shape at one end and tapering to a point at the other: teardrop earrings.

Glassmaking. a decorative air bubble enclosed in a glass vessel; air bell.

tears, grief; sorrow.

verb (used without object)

to fill up and overflow with tears, as the eyes (often followed by up): My eyes were tearing in the wind. He teared up when he heard the news.

Idiom

in tears, weeping: He was in tears over the death of his dog.

Origin:
before 900; (noun) Middle English teer, Old English tēar, tehher, taeher; cognate with Old High German zahar, Old Norse tār, Gothic tagr, Greek dákry, Latin lacrima (see lachrymal); (v.) Middle English teren, Old English teheran, in teherende (gerund), derivative of the noun

verb (used with object)

to pull apart or in pieces by force, especially so as to leave ragged or irregular edges. Synonyms: rend, rip, rive. Antonyms: mend, repair, sew.

to pull or snatch violently; wrench away with force: to tear wrappings from a package; to tear a book from someone's hands.

to distress greatly: anguish that tears the heart. Synonyms: break, crack, shatter, afflict.

to divide or disrupt: a country torn by civil war. Synonyms: disunite, split, splinter. Antonyms: unite, reunite, join, bind.

to wound or injure by or as if by rending; lacerate. Synonyms: cut, mangle, slash.

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to produce or effect by rending: to tear a hole in one's coat.

to remove by force or effort: to be unable to tear oneself from a place.

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verb (used without object)

to become torn.

to make a tear or rent.

10.

to move or behave with force, violent haste, or energy: The wind tore through the trees; cars tearing up and down the highway; I was tearing around all afternoon trying to find sandals for the beach.

noun

11.

the act of tearing.

12.

a rent or fissure. Synonyms: rip, rift, rupture.

13.

a rage or passion; violent flurry or outburst.

14.

Informal. a spree.

Verb phrases

15.

tear at,

to pluck violently at; attempt to tear: She tore at the bandages until they loosened.

to distress; afflict: remorse that tears at one's soul.

16.

tear down,

to pull down; destroy; demolish.

to disparage or discredit: to tear down one's friends behind their backs.

17.

tear into, Informal.

to attack impulsively and heedlessly: He tore into the food with a will.

to attack verbally: She tore into him for being late for dinner.

18.

tear off, Slang. to perform or do, especially rapidly or casually: to tear off a poem; to tear off a set of tennis.

19.

tear up,

to tear into small shreds: He tore up the drawings because she had criticized them. Synonyms: rip up.

to cancel or annul: to tear up a contract.

Idioms

20.

tear it, Slang. to ruin all hope; spoil everything.

21.

tear one's hair, to manifest extreme anxiety, grief, anger, or frustration: I'm so upset, I could just tear my hair out. Also, tear one's hair out.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English teren (v.), Old English teran; cognate with Dutch teren, German zehren to consume, Gothic distairan to destroy, Greek dérein to flay

Related forms

tear·a·ble, adjective

tear·a·ble·ness, noun

tear·er, noun

un·tear·a·ble, adjective

Synonyms
1. Tear, rend, rip mean to pull apart. To tear is to split the fibers of something by pulling apart, usually so as to leave ragged or irregular edges: to tear open a letter. Rend implies force or violence in tearing apart or in pieces: to rend one's clothes in grief. Rip implies vigorous tearing asunder, especially along a seam or line: to rip the sleeves out of a coat.

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World English Dictionary

tore¹ (tɔː)

—vb
	the past tense of tear

tore² (tɔː)

—n
	architect another name for torus

[C17: from French, from Latin: torus]

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Word Origin & History

tear

"pull apart," O.E. teran (class IV strong verb; past tense tær, pp. toren), from P.Gmc. *teran (cf. O.S. terian, M.Du. teren "to consume," O.H.G. zeran "to destroy," Ger. zehren, Goth. ga-tairan "to tear, destroy"), from PIE *der- "tear" (cf. Skt. drnati "cleaves, bursts," Gk. derein "to flay,"

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Arm. terem "I flay," O.C.S. dera "to burst asunder," Bret. darn "piece"). The O.E. past tense survived long enough to get into Bible translations as tare before giving place 17c. to tore, which is from the old pp. toren. Sense of "to pull by force" (away from some situation or attachment) is attested from 1297. The noun meaning "act of tearing" is attested from 1666. To be torn between two things (desires, loyalties, etc.) is from 1871.

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American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

tear ² (tēr)
n.
A drop of the clear salty liquid that is secreted by the lacrimal gland of the eye to lubricate the surface between the eyeball and eyelid and to wash away irritants.

American Heritage

Science Dictionary

tear (tîr) Pronunciation Key
A drop of the clear salty liquid secreted by glands (lacrimal glands) in the eyes. Tears wet the membrane covering the eye and help rid the eye of irritating substances.

Slang Dictionary

tear definition

[tɛr]

n.
a wild drinking bout. (See also rip.) : Sally is off on a tear again.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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tore (up) definition

and torn (up); tore down

mod.
distraught; emotionally upset. : Fred's really torn up about the accident.
mod.
alcohol or drug intoxicated. : He wasn't just drunk—he was massively tore up.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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