Definition of tear

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Tear (n.) That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge.

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Epiphora :: Epiphora (n.) The watery eye; a disease in which the tears accumulate in the eye, and trickle over the cheek..
Tatter :: Tatter (v. t.) To rend or tear into rags; -- used chiefly in the past participle as an adjective.
Dilaniate :: Dilaniate (v. t.) To rend in pieces; to tear.
Rend :: Rend (v. t.) To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to tear asunder; to split; to burst; as, powder rends a rock in blasting; lightning rends an oak..
Tearer :: Tearer (n.) One who tears or rends anything; also, one who rages or raves with violence..
Scratch :: Scratch (v. i.) To use the claws or nails in tearing or in digging; to make scratches.
Stethograph :: Stethal (n.) One of the higher alcohols of the methane series, homologous with ethal, and found in small quantities as an ethereal salt of stearic acid in spermaceti..
Rip :: Rip (v. t.) To get by, or as by, cutting or tearing..
Peel :: Peel (v. t.) To strip off the skin, bark, or rind of; to strip by drawing or tearing off the skin, bark, husks, etc.; to flay; to decorticate; as, to peel an orange..
Touze :: Touze (v. t. & i.) To pull; to haul; to tear; to worry.
Rent :: Rent (v. t.) To tear. See Rend.
Wheatear :: Wheatear (n.) A small European singing bird (Saxicola /nanthe). The male is white beneath, bluish gray above, with black wings and a black stripe through each eye. The tail is black at the tip and in the middle, but white at the base and on each side. Called also checkbird, chickell, dykehopper, fallow chat, fallow finch, stonechat, and whitetail..
Watery :: Watery (a.) Abounding with water; wet; hence, tearful..
Rend :: Rend (v. t.) To part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force.
Droplet :: Droplet (n.) A little drop; a tear.
Uproot :: Uproot (v. t.) To root up; to tear up by the roots, or as if by the roots; to remove utterly; to eradicate; to extirpate..
Margarin :: Margarin (n.) A fatty substance, extracted from animal fats and certain vegetable oils, formerly supposed to be a definite compound of glycerin and margaric acid, but now known to be simply a mixture or combination of tristearin and teipalmitin..
Larmier :: Larmier (n.) See Tearpit.
Off :: Off (adv.) Denoting the action of removing or separating; separation; as, to take off the hat or cloak; to cut off, to pare off, to clip off, to peel off, to tear off, to march off, to fly off, and the like..
Claw :: Claw (n.) To pull, tear, or scratch with, or as with, claws or nails..
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