Definition of tear

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Tear (v. i.) To move and act with turbulent violence; to rush with violence; hence, to rage; to rave..

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Rent :: Rent (n.) An opening made by rending; a break or breach made by force; a tear.
Fang :: Fang (a.) To enable to catch or tear; to furnish with fangs.
Tear-thumb :: Tear-thumb (n.) A name given to several species of plants of the genus Polygonum, having angular stems beset with minute reflexed prickles..
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..
Tearer :: Tearer (n.) One who tears or rends anything; also, one who rages or raves with violence..
Ortolan :: Ortolan (n.) In England, the wheatear (Saxicola oenanthe)..
Root :: Root (v. t.) To tear up by the root; to eradicate; to extirpate; -- with up, out, or away..
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..
Tearful :: Tearful (a.) Abounding with tears; weeping; shedding tears; as, tearful eyes..
Distrain :: Distrain (v. t.) To rend; to tear.
To- :: To- (prep.) An obsolete intensive prefix used in the formation of compound verbs; as in to-beat, to-break, to-hew, to-rend, to-tear. See these words in the Vocabulary. See the Note on All to, or All-to, under All, adv..
Extort :: Extort (v. t.) To wrest from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity; to wrench away (from); to tear away; to wring (from); to exact; as, to extort contributions from the vanquished; to extort confessions of guilt; to extort a promise; to extort payment of a debt..
Dilacerate :: Dilacerate (v. t.) To rend asunder; to tear to pieces.
Delaceration :: Delaceration (n.) A tearing in pieces.
Rip :: Rip (v. t.) To get by, or as by, cutting or tearing..
Mammock :: Mammock (v. t.) To tear to pieces.
Mouse :: Mouse (v. t.) To tear, as a cat devours a mouse..
Seborrhea :: Seborrhea (n.) A morbidly increased discharge of sebaceous matter upon the skin; stearrhea.
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..
Lachrymose :: Lachrymose (a.) Generating or shedding tears; given to shedding tears; suffused with tears; tearful.
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