Definition of tear

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Tear (v. i.) To divide or separate on being pulled; to be rent; as, this cloth tears easily..

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Droplet :: Droplet (n.) A little drop; a tear.
Discerp :: Discerp (v. t.) To tear in pieces; to rend.
Mastic :: Mastic (n.) A resin exuding from the mastic tree, and obtained by incision. The best is in yellowish white, semitransparent tears, of a faint smell, and is used as an astringent and an aromatic, also as an ingredient in varnishes..
Dismember :: Dismember (v. t.) To tear limb from limb; to dilacerate; to disjoin member from member; to tear or cut in pieces; to break up.
Stearone :: Stearolic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the acetylene series, isologous with stearis acid, and obtained, as a white crystalline substance, from oleic acid..
Gushing :: Gushing (a.) Emitting copiously, as tears or words; weakly and unreservedly demonstrative in matters of affection; sentimental..
Lachrymal :: Lachrymal (a.) Of or pertaining to tears; as, lachrymal effusions..
Tear :: Tear (v. t.) To separate by violence; to pull apart by force; to rend; to lacerate; as, to tear cloth; to tear a garment; to tear the skin or flesh..
Strip :: Strip (v. t.) To tear off (the thread) from a bolt or nut; as, the thread is stripped..
Give :: Give (v. i.) To shed tears; to weep.
Tear :: Tear (n.) The act of tearing, or the state of being torn; a rent; a fissure..
Tearless :: Tearless (a.) Shedding no tears; free from tears; unfeeling.
Fletiferous :: Fletiferous (a.) Producing tears.
Tatter :: Tatter (v. t.) To rend or tear into rags; -- used chiefly in the past participle as an adjective.
Elaeoptene :: Elaeoptene (n.) The more liquid or volatile portion of certain oily substance, as distinguished from stearoptene, the more solid parts..
Tristearin :: Tristearin (n.) See Stearin.
Ortolan :: Ortolan (n.) In England, the wheatear (Saxicola oenanthe)..
Dehiscence :: Dehiscence (n.) A gaping or bursting open along a definite line of attachment or suture, without tearing, as in the opening of pods, or the bursting of capsules at maturity so as to emit seeds, etc.; also, the bursting open of follicles, as in the ovaries of animals, for the expulsion of their contents..
Strip :: Strip (v. t.) To pull or tear off, as a covering; to remove; to wrest away; as, to strip the skin from a beast; to strip the bark from a tree; to strip the clothes from a man's back; to strip away all disguisses..
Tore :: Tore () imp. of Tear.
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