Tear

Verb

 * 1)  To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate.
 * 2) * 1856:, , Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
 * He suffered, poor man, at seeing her so badly dressed, with laceless boots, and the arm-holes of her pinafore torn down to the hips; for the charwoman took no care of her.
 * He tore his coat on the nail.
 * 1)  To remove by tearing.
 * Tear the coupon out of the newspaper.
 * 1)  to demolish
 * The slums were torn down to make way for the new development
 * 1)  To become torn, especially accidentally.
 * My dress has torn.
 * 1)  To move at excessive speed.
 * He went tearing down the hill at 90 miles per hour.

Synonyms

 * rend, rip
 * rip out, tear off, tear out

Related terms

 * tearaway
 * tear apart
 * tear down
 * tear into
 * tear up
 * that's torn it
 * wear and tear
 * retear

Noun

 * 1) A hole or break caused by tearing.
 * A small tear is easy to mend, if it is on the seam.

Derived terms

 * wear and tear

Noun

 * 1) A drop of clear, salty liquid produced from the eyes by crying or irritation.
 * There were big tears rolling down Lisa's cheeks.
 * Ryan wiped the tear from the paper he was crying on.

Derived terms

 * crocodile tears
 * shed a tear
 * teardrop
 * tear duct
 * tearful
 * tear up
 * teary

Verb

 * 1)  To produce tears
 * Her eyes began to tear in the harsh wind.

Adverbs for Tear
distractedly; viciously; hideously; extensively; impatiently; ravenously; rudely; wolf-ishly; literally; wantonly; ceaselessly; ruthlessly; dreadfully.

Thesaurus
abrade, abrasion, amputate, assault, attack, autacoid, ax, bacchanal, bacchanalia, bacchanalian, ball the jack, barbarize, bark, barrel, bat, batter, bawling, bender, bile, binge, bisect, blemish, bloody, blubbering, boil, bolt, boom, booze, bout, bowl along, breach, break, breakage, breeze, breeze along, broach, brush, brutalize, bundle, burn, burst, bust, bustle, butcher, buzz about, career, carousal, carouse, carry on, carve, celebration, chafe, chalone, charge, chase, check, chink, chip, chop, chyle, claw, cleave, cleft, clip, colostrum, compotation, concussion, crack, crackle, craze, crevasse, crowd, cry, crying, cut, cut along, cut away, cut in two, cut off, cut open, damage, dart, dash, dash off, dash on, debauch, destroy, devil, dichotomize, digestive secretion, discharge, dispart, dissever, divaricate, divide, double-time, drinking bout, drunk, drunken carousal, endocrine, escapade, evulse, excise, excrete, festinate, fissure, fit of crying, flash burn, fleet, fling, flit, flood of tears, flutter, fly, fly low, fly open, fracture, fray, frazzle, fret, fuss, gall, gallop, gap, gash, gastric juice, get going, get moving, give out, gleet, go fast, go on, good cry, gore, greet, guzzle, hack, halve, hammer, haste, hasten, hew, hie, highball, hole, hormone, humor, hump, hump it, hurry, hurry about, hurry on, hurry through, hurry up, hurry-scurry, hurt, hurtle, hustle, ichor, impair, incise, incision, injure, injury, intestinal juice, jag, jigsaw, lacerate, laceration, lachryma, lachrymosity, lacrimatory, lactate, lactation, lance, lark, lash, lay open, lay waste, leap, lesion, leukorrhea, loot, lose no time, lymph, maim, make a fuss, make haste, make knots, make mincemeat of, mangle, matter, maul, melting mood, milk, mortal wound, move quickly, mucor, mucus, mug, mutilate, mutilation, nip, np, ope, open, open up, orgy, outstrip the wind, overflowing eyes, pancreatic juice, pare, part, peccant humor, phlegm, pierce, pillage, ploy, plunge, post, potation, pour it on, press on, produce, prostatic fluid, prune, pub-crawl, pull, pull apart, puncture, purulence, pus, push on, race, rage, ramp, rampage, randan, randy, rant, rape, rave, rend, rent, revel, rheum, ribbon, rift, riot, rip, rive, roar, ruin, run, rupture, rush, rush about, rush around, rush through, sack, saliva, salivary secretion, sanies, savage, saw, scald, scale, scamper, scissor, scoot, scorch, score, scotch, scour, scramble, scrape, scratch, scud, scuff, scurry, scuttle, secern, second-degree burn, secrete, semen, separate, serous fluid, serum, sever, shoot, shred, sizzle, skedaddle, skim, skin, slash, slaughter, slice, slit, snatch, snip, sniveling, snot, sobbing, sore, sow chaos, speed, sperm, splinter, split, sprain, spread, spread out, spree, spring open, sprint, spurt, stab, stab wound, step on it, stick, storm, storm along, strain, sunder, suppuration, sweat, sweep, swing open, symposium, tap, tear along, tear around, tear bottle, tear open, teardrop, tearful eyes, tearfulness, tears, terrorize, the whites, third-degree burn, throw open, thunder along, thyroxin, toot, trauma, traumatize, urine, vandalize, violate, wassail, water, weep, weepiness, weeping, whimpering, whisk, whittle, whiz, whiz about, wingding, wound, wounds immedicable, wreck, wrench, yank, zing, zip, zoom

Etymology 1
From teran:, from.

Etymology 2
tear:, from an earlier form teahor:, from, from. Cognates include Old Norse tár: (Danish tåre: and Norwegian tåre:), Old High German zahar: (German Zähre:), Gothic 𐍄𐌰𐌲𐍂:.

Verb

 * Arabic: مزق
 * Armenian: ,
 * Catalan:, esquinçar
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 撕破
 * Czech: roztrhnout
 * Danish: flå, ; revne
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Indonesian: robek, sobek, cabik, carik
 * Irish:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 破る, 引き裂く
 * Korean: 찢다
 * Kurdish:
 * Polish: drzeć
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, порвать ; разрывать , разорвать
 * Slovene: raztrgati, strgati
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: machozi
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: చినుగు (chinugu), తుంచు (tuMchu), చించు (ciMchu)
 * Turkish:
 * Yiddish: רײַסן


 * Armenian:
 * Czech: utrhnout, odtrhnout
 * Esperanto:, elŝiri
 * French: ,
 * German: herausreißen
 * Korean: 찢어내다 (jjijeonaeda)
 * Polish: odrywać
 * Portuguese: ,


 * Russian:, оторвать ; срывать , сорвать
 * Slovene: odtrgati
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: machozi
 * Telugu: తుంచు (tuMchu)
 * Turkish:


 * Czech:
 * French:
 * Portuguese: demolir
 * Russian:, разрушить; ,


 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: machozi


 * Armenian: պատռվել, ճղվել
 * Catalan: esquinçar, esgarrar
 * Czech: roztrhnout se
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: se déchirer
 * German:
 * Korean: 찢기다 (jjitgida)


 * Kurdish:
 * Russian: рваться, порваться
 * Slovene: strgati se
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: machozi
 * Turkish:


 * Russian: нестись

Noun

 * Danish: flænge,
 * German:
 * Kurdish:


 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Russian:
 * Telugu: చిరుగు (chirugu)

Derived terms

 * tearsheet

Noun

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: دمع, دموع
 * Armenian: ,
 * Aromanian:
 * Bosnian:
 * Catalan: llàgrima
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: traan de
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: tár
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Gujarati: આંસૂં (ā.nsū.n)
 * Hindi: आँसू (ā.nsū)
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian: air mata
 * Interlingua: lacrima
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 涙 (なみだ, namida)


 * Korean: 눈물 (nunmul)
 * Kurdish:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: asara
 * Lithuanian:
 * Maori: roimata
 * Nahuatl: ixayotl
 * Northern Sami:
 * Norwegian: tårer
 * Nynorsk: tåra
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: deur
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: суза
 * Roman: suza
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: machozi
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: కన్నీటి బొట్టు (kanneeTi boTTu)
 * Thai: น้ำตา
 * Turkish:
 * Urdu: (ānsū)

Verb

 * French: verser une larme, larmoyer
 * German:
 * Korean: 눈물짓다 (nunmul-jitda), 눈물흘리다 (nunmul-heullida)


 * Latvian: asarot
 * Portuguese:
 * Swahili: machozi

Anagrams

 * rate
 * tare

Noun

 * 1)  (drop of liquid from the tear duct)

Etymology
. Germanic cognates include Old Frisian tar:, Old High German zahar: (German Zähre:, originally plural), Old Norse tár: (Swedish tår:).

Noun

 * 1) loom

Etymology
From

Noun
tear


 * 1) tar